Calling Mr. Smith (1943)

Directed by

Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

11 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film is an experimental anti-Nazi work that uses surreal and abstract imagery to protest the Nazi regime's atrocities. It aims to expose the horrors of Nazism to British audiences during World War Two.

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What happens

Calling Mr. Smith (Polish: Wzywając pana Smitha or Wzywamy Pana Smitha) is a short experimental (avant-garde) anti-Nazi Polish-British film from 1943, created by Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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