Krtek (Little Mole) and the Snowman Series 6. DVD 2000 Kisvakond s a hember – Kisvakond mesegyjtemny 6. / 9 episodes on disc / Classic Czech Cartoon / Created by Zdenk MilerUPC 5998329508473REGION 2 PAL DVDMADE IN HUNGARYAUDIO: Hungarian 2.0, Romanian 2.0Total Runtime: 64 minutesEnglish Summary:The Mole (in the Czech original called Krtek, or, for little mole, Krteek) is an animated character in a series of cartoons, created by Czech animator Zdenk Miler. The premiere of the first short film with the Mole was on Venice Film Festival in 1957. Since its inception, the cartoon won itself an enormous popularity in many Central European countries, as well as India, China, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Iraq and Japan.Krtek was first seen in 1956 in Prague, when Miler wanted to create a children’s cartoon about how flax is processed. He wanted a strong Disney influence to the cartoon by choosing an animal for the leading role, and decided to pick a mole after stumbling over a molehill during a walk. The first film called “Jak krtek ke kalhotkm piel” (“How the mole got his trousers”) had premiere on Venice Film Festival in 1957, where it was awarded two Golden Lions. Production for further episodes started in 1963 and since then, around 50 episodes have been created.The first episode of the cartoon was narrated, but Miler wanted the cartoon to be understood in every country of the world, so he decided to use his daughters as voice actors, reducing the speech to short non-figurative exclamations in order to express the mole’s feelings and world perception. They also became the bottleneck of the creation process as they were the ones who got to see the whole film first, thus Miler was able to decide whether the message of the movie was able to get to children or not.Hungarian Summary:A Kisvakond (eredeti cm: csehl Krtek vagy Krteek, szlovkul Krtko) 1957-tl 2002-ig vettett csehszlovk televzis rajzfilmsorozat, melynek megalkotja Zdenk Miler cseh rajzfilmkszt, a Barrandov stdi egyik munkatrsa. A tvfilmsorozat gyrtja a Krtk Film Praha nev filmstdi. Az animcis jtkfilmsorozat zenit Milo Vacek, Vadim Petrov s Jir Strohner szereztk. Mfaja mesefilmsorozat. A sorozatot Csehszlovkiban a esk Televize vettette, Magyarorszgon az M1, az M2 s a Duna sugrozta, valamint az RTL Klub is adta a Klykklub cm msorblokkban.Az akkor 33 ves rajzol-animtor 1954 szn kapta azt a feladatot, hogy tervezzen oktat s nevel clzat filmeket gyermekek szmra. A lehetsges tmk kztt szerepelt a textilipar s a ruhagyrts bemutatsa. Miler nem akart szokvnyos propagandafilmet kszteni. gy gondolta, hogy jobb megolds, ha egy szerethet filmszerepl kalandjai sorn ismerik meg a gyerekek a gyrtsi folyamatokat. Komolyan megkzdtt a feladattal, alkoti vlsgbl egy mra legendss vlt botls segtette ki.Miler egy alkonyi sta alkalmval megbotlott egy vakondtrsban gy szletett meg Kisvakond tlete.Kisvakond 1956-ban indult tjra, a helyes fhs sok kelet-eurpai orszgban hamar risi npszersgre tett szert, de Nmetorszgban, Ausztriban s Knban is.Czech Summary:O krtkovi je voln srie krtkch animovanch film pro dti vtvarnka Zdeka Milera, kter vznikala mezi lety 1957 a 2002. Hlavn postavou je kreslen krtek potkajc se mnohdy se svtem lid a zavajc rzn phody se svmi zvecmi kamardy. Po smrti autora umonila jeho vnuka vznik novch dl s krtkem, koprodukn nsko-esk seril se jmenuje Krtek a Panda.Zdenk Miler (21. nora 1921, Kladno 30. listopadu 2011, Nov Ves pod Ple) byl esk reisr a vtvarnk animovanch film pro dti, autor oblben postaviky Krteka.About the Author:Zdenk MilerMiler was born in Kladno just west of Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia. He became an animator partly because of the Nazi occupation