The Gift

1947 · 15 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 77 VOTES · DIR. Jiří Krejčík, Jiří Trnka

Overview

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as the Citizen Kane of animation.

Dialogue Timeline — 202 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:00 National Film Library presents a production
00:00:31 Sound Effects: AR.Studiya, Prague - Lucerne.
00:01:44 There'll be everything.
00:02:24 Unless, of course, there's not a lot of extras and expensive sets.
00:02:47 In truth, I can not tell you everything in full detail...
00:03:16 We must not show that a single person has so many servants.
00:03:59 And together they go to a sculptor.
00:04:32 Already fine.
00:05:13 Original music, wrote it myself, from vinyls.
00:06:11 Yeah, okay, okay.
00:06:55 Watch how he turns blue.
00:07:48 Already near the house.
00:08:17 Here you can select a suitable apartment.
00:09:16 Naturally, no problems.
00:09:52 Signs a contract.
00:10:22 Here he is.
00:10:41 This is no problem.
00:11:14 Caught in the "glowing flames".
00:12:19 Even as a little boy...
00:12:48 Okay, but you lack suspense again.
00:13:13 Nothing doing.
00:14:14 wouldn't have been a gentleman, that is, a different kind.
00:14:44 but a savage, from some island. Do you understand?
00:15:27 END

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed202
Dialogue density13.5 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:15:27

Production Record

DirectorJiří Krejčík, Jiří Trnka
LanguageCS
IMDb votes77