From the pockets of poet Ojārs Vācietis drop, tumble and leap the protagonists of these lyrical anecdotes, including a soulful horse with a heroic streak, a robustly pragmatic mother pig and her numerous sweet yet naughty offspring, a nasty circus impresario, and a soap-phobic fly. As in The Golden Sieve, the songs were composed by the legendary Imants Kalniņš.
– Olaf Möller
Also in this combined programme
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A Portrait from Our Century
An associative animation of photos and paintings, showing mankind’s history and the fortunes and misfortunes of life in a human face. -
The Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation. -
The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)
An almost psychedelically luminous invocation of the Battle of Borodino set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1880). -
Pieseň
Proto-music video set to duet by Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška. Pioneering work of pre-independence Slovak animation. -
Kým sa ucho neodbije
Ironic yet forgiving look at human foibles and weakness, set to commentary of peasant proverbs. -
Kontakty
Three fables about Havettová’s main theme: help and abuse. A masterpiece of pre-independence Slovak animation! -
The Golden Sieve
Three stories-in-songs for children about the heavens above. A milestone in (Soviet) Latvian animation! -
Bear of Happiness
When a village is in danger, the inhabitants set out to find the Bear of Happiness.
Film details
- Country of production
- Soviet Union
- Year
- 1983
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
