Even Mice Belong in Heaven

Even Mice Belong in Heaven (Czech: Myši patří do nebe) is a 2021 coproduction animated film directed by Jan Bubeníček and Denisa Grimmová.

The film is based on the children's book Mice Go to Heaven by Iva Procházková with illustrations by Marine Ludin.

In the book, a little mouse called Whizzy flees from the hungry fox Whitebelly, misses a root, stumbles and falls off a high rock.

[8] Born in Paris, Ludin studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Nancy and illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg with Rüdiger Stoye, graduating as a qualified designer in 2005.

[9] Even Mice Belong in Heaven was adapted for film by director and screenwriter Alice Nellis, who has won several Český lev awards, and Richard Malatinský, who previously worked mainly on teleseries.

Myši patří do nebe, the original title of the film,[10] was made in the Barrandov Studios in Prague.

[11][12] Animators include Frantisek Vasa, Piotr Ficner, Vojtech Kiss, Michal Kubíček, Katarzyna Okoniewska, Viliam Vala and Matous Valchar.