Ferda the Ant

Hermína Týrlová, Ladislav Zástěra, 1942

Distribution media

Medium Duration Subtitles
16 mm 10 min
35 mm 10 min
8 mm 10 min
DCP 10 min English, Czech for the deaf and hard of hearing

About the film distribution

The film was approved by German censorship on 2 November 1943 and was distributed by the Degeto Film Berlin company. The surviving copy of the film has a lower-case letter "m" in the title (Ferda mravenec – Ferda the ant), while the literary original by the Czech writer and designer Ondřej Sekora was published with the upper-case "M" (Ferda Mravenec – Ferda the Ant). The following editions of the book use both variants.
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Film data

About a film

Production year 1942
Countries Czechoslovakia
Categories film
Genres slapstick
Form animated
Duration 10 min
Director Hermína Týrlová, Ladislav Zástěra
Director of photography Pavel Hrdlička
Screenplay Hermína Týrlová, Jiří Kolaja, Elmar Klos
Editor Josef Dobřichovský
Artist Stanislav Mikuláštík, Zdeněk Plesník
Music Miroslav Ponc
Sound designer František Pilát