The Garden (Zahrada) 1/5 - The Animal Lover (Milovník zvířat) (1974) (English subtitles)

The introduction to Břetislav Pojar's series "The Garden" based on the book of the same title by Jiří Trnka. It is a story about an old and lonely man who, in order to cheer himself, buys a few small animals. However, the animals grow up to be a whale and two elephants. The kitten changes into a full-grown tomcat. The old man, however, does not live to see that. He dies and the garden he bought for the animals wastes away and, though there grows up a town around it, nobody knows that there is a garden there.

NOTE: The English subtitles are based on a transcript of the film from its airing on the anthology series Mistři českého animovaného filmu (www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1110217273-mistri-ceskeho-animovaneho-filmu/203382524320014/). If there are any mistakes, please let me know in the comments and I will fix them!

Special thanks goes to Marin Pažanin for pointing me to this better-quality version of the film.

Screenplay and Direction: Břetislav Pojar
Designer: Miroslav Štěpánek
Animation: Boris Masník, Jan Klos
Music: Jiří Kolafa
Told by: Bohuš Záhorský