Pavao Štalter

A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them.

A light signal from a side train station stops a night train. The railway worker knocks on wheels to make sure the axles are faultless. All the passengers are asleep, they react to the knocking, but they don’t wake up. Only the passengers in the most expensive part of the train loudly protest and demand that the worker should be chased away. Their wish comes true.

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim.

A horse becomes a man.

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.

A yellowish black and white photo of a city square from the late 19th century. At one point everything in it comes alive – people at café tables, women in windows, passers-by. They all become part of a lively street scene.

A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them.

A light signal from a side train station stops a night train. The railway worker knocks on wheels to make sure the axles are faultless. All the passengers are asleep, they react to the knocking, but they don’t wake up. Only the passengers in the most expensive part of the train loudly protest and demand that the worker should be chased away. Their wish comes true.

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim.

A horse becomes a man.

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.

A yellowish black and white photo of a city square from the late 19th century. At one point everything in it comes alive – people at café tables, women in windows, passers-by. They all become part of a lively street scene.

A yellowish black and white photo of a city square from the late 19th century. At one point everything in it comes alive – people at café tables, women in windows, passers-by. They all become part of a lively street scene.

Two gentlemen are having an argument. How heavy is their disagreement?

Two gentlemen are having an argument. How heavy is their disagreement?

A mouthy frog gets his wish when a princess’s kiss turns him into a human. But just because he’s got a voice doesn’t mean he has much to say.

An episode from "A Bird and a Worm" series. Unable to fly by itself, a bird watches longingly a group of merry fliers. Seeing that even a snail has figured out how to fly, the bird gets an idea and makes its own flying machine. But the device falls apart quickly and the bird crashes down. When the furious bird notices its worst enemy, the worm, coming out of the makeshift aircraft, the chase begins.

A persistent trumpeter tries to join a string quartet that doesn't want him.

A persistent trumpeter tries to join a string quartet that doesn't want him.

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandsons live in harmony, keeping ablaze the hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house lives. However, their shrewd enemy the Witch abodes in the swamp...

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandsons live in harmony, keeping ablaze the hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house lives. However, their shrewd enemy the Witch abodes in the swamp...

Animated film by Pavao Stalter.

Animated film by Pavao Stalter.