一只可以幻化各种形状的小怪物，偶然翻看一本谜语书。书中夹带的糖果吸引了它，但是小怪物无论怎样追逐都吃不到嘴。得到糖果的办法只有一个，就是答对书中的三道谜题：牧羊人和绵羊、大雁和水壶、老太太和白糖。谜语晦涩难懂，小怪物只能根据其中的场景变幻形状，实地去体验。为了好吃的糖果，真可谓不辞辛苦！ 捷克停格动画大师吉利•唐卡（Jirí Trnka）得意门生，吉利•巴塔（Jirí Barta）导演处女作，也是他被认为创作得最温和一部动画作品。

A dark and windy night. A thief crawls over a cemetery wall and picks the lock of a crypt. He steals a gold coin - a door opens to a greenish/yellow light. The thief enters and finds more booty for his bag - silverware, gold, pearls, gems, furs . . . he hears laughter - read no further if you want to be surprised if you have a chance to see the film - he looks up to see 4 people - a young and old man, an old woman, a young beautiful woman and a young girl. They seem to welcome him: the little girl pokes him a little; the old woman motions him to come. They are playing a game of dice. He roles six dice out of a cup - all sixes. They all hand him money. The game continues. He keeps winning. The thief has flesh tones while the others are grey, for the most part. We get an extreme close up of his eyes - he's having a great time. The tongue of the young girl is a delicate pink. The beautiful woman appears to pour some wine for the thief - glasses are clinked - toasts made. The woman pours wine into his mouth; her fingernails begin curling into his neck. The young girl's pink tongue is wagging. The thief in in a tub smoking a cigar with the woman washing him - the old man is sharpening a razor for a shave. The little girl drops a watermelon which breaks open, but no shaving nick results. The thief is clothed in a gold robe - the clock strikes midnight. The girl is feeding him grapes. He screams - a nurse pushes a tray with lamps - the thief is strapped into a bed and a needle gently inserted into his arm - a vacuum mechanism begins pumping - he turns from pink to grey. The cock crows - the people turn to statues - we seem to be exiting the crypt and cemetery, seeing lit candles on some graves - an ambulance goes by. Be careful being entertained in cemeteries . . . The delicate use of color washes is quite remarkable - reminded me of the red coat in Schindler's List, but this was quite a while after 1987, I believe.

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.

在建筑工地上挖掘出了一个废弃的动画工作室，一个人在里面找到了一盒胶片放映，主角们是一些不同样式的手套，导演使用拟人化的手套阐释了七种电影类型，包括了卓别林、布努艾尔、费里尼到斯皮尔伯格等的经典电影。电影开始于卓别林式的追逐，结束于当代的科幻灾难，简短地说明了电影的发展历史。尽管长度较短，但它包含了电影中最常见的那些情节。它是后Trnka时期捷克偶类动画片的一个代表。

在一间废弃的俱乐部里，堆放着许多破旧的人体模特。虽然处在人类遗忘的角落，但他们却渐渐有了人性，由此组成一个怪异而平静的公寓族群：“丈夫”每天按时起床，和断臂的“妻子”拥抱后带着便当出门上班；“妻子”专心在家准备美味的晚宴；“女乐手”沉溺于自己的音乐世界；“老人”固执地砸着不出声的话匣子；“老奶奶”和“小女孩”平静地坐着针线活；强壮“男人”则透窥着隔壁的“美女”。日复一日，周而复始，平静中带着些许枯燥。 但他们的生活很快被一群外来者搅乱……

本动画片短短不过5分钟，却引人发思。 设计师从公文包里掏出笔与各种作图工具，伴着市井之声，他开始在图纸上设计楼房。房间与房间在他笔下除了位置，一模一样。之后，他将一张张家庭剪影放进一个个房间，房间似乎有了生气也有了区分。但他紧接的动作表明，每个人的人生，都似他设计的一个个房间，并无不同。

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.