Shadow Over Prague
Animated short based on an urban legend from the era of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during the WW II. The phantom avenger with spring-heeled shoes jumps above the streets of Prague and fights the occupants. He has to stop the Nazis from waking up the Golem - a dreadful artificial being from The Old Jewish Town. Czech variation on classic superheroes. Apart from them it wasn’t created by the fantasy of comic writers. This one was created directly from the folk tales.
- Czech Republic
- 2016, 13 min
- Director: Marek Berger
Marek Berger
Marek Berger was born in 1987 in Vysoké Mýto. He studied at the Secondary school of art and design in Brno and animation at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin and at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He has made student films and also works as an illustrator, graphic designer and comic book artist. He contributed to the animated series Old Prague Legends (Legendy staré Prahy, 2013-2015).