Springman and the SS

Springman and the SS

Springman and the SS

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Springman and the SS

1946

0h 14m

5.8(29 votes)

Animation

Comedy

War

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The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II.

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