Springman and the SS

A whimsical, absurdist wartime fable where an ordinary chimney sweep becomes an unlikely folk hero against Nazi occupation through the magic of a spring.

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.