Animated films

Mistr a Markétka - 2015

Katariina Lillqvist

The Finnish-born, yet international film co-operative Camera Cagliostro has been producing puppet animations, art documentaries and radio features for over two decades.

Founded by Finnish director Katariina Lillqvist in 1992, Camera Cagliostro was in the beginning concentrating mostly in Czech-Finnish co-productions, naturally in the field of puppet animation as this was the director´s main subject while studying in former Czechoslovakia.

Camera Cagliostro is now entering into a new path: its first feature film, a 80 minutes puppet animation version of The Master and Margarita is on pre-production stage now. Director will be Katariina Lillqvist, executive producer Viktor Mayer, and the original soundtrack will be composed by Alec Kopyt.

Camera Cagliostro is the main producer, the principal partners in the co-production are, the Finnish public television broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) and the renowned Polish animation studio Se-ma-for. More partners have been found in Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Canada and France.

In June 2014, Katariina Lillqvist informed us that the project is expected to be finished in 2017. It didn't happen yet, though. A pilot film of five minutes is already be available, though. It was shown for the first time on May 7, 2013, at the occasion of the International Festival of Animated Films in Třeboň, Czech Republic. You can watch it here.