Svatba v korálovém moři is a 1943 Czechoslovak animated short film. It was written, animated and directed by a group of Czech cartoonists including Jiří Brdečka, Jaroslav Kándl, Eduard Hofman, Břetislav Pojar

Bretislav Pojar

Břetislav Pojar is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka...

, Václav Bedřich, Stanislav Látal, Jaroslav Doubrava

Jaroslav Doubrava

Jaroslav Doubrava was a Czech composer, painter, and pedagogue.He studied in the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Jeremiáš. His works are typified by somber, yet dramatic, music in the Romantic style. His Third Symphony and ballet Don Quijote are some of his most popular works...

 and Josef Kluge in German-occupied Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 in AFIT studios. German cartoonist Horst von Möllendorff

Horst von Möllendorff

Horst von Möllendorff was a German cartoonist who was "drafted" to work for the Nazi's animated short industry. He was hired as a result of former commercial animator Hans Fischerkoesen not being able to come up with adequate story ideas for his short films...

 was appointed as an official director, while his role in the making of the movie was in fact minimal. The movie was released only after the end of the war in 1945.

The plot involves the creatures of the sea preparing for the wedding of two fish. When the fish bride is kidnapped by an octopus all the sea creatures must team up to defeat him and rescue the bride.

See also

• List of films made in the Third Reich