Homo sapiens (1960)

Directed by

Ion Popescu-Gopo

Genre

animation

Country

Romania

Runtime

9 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Romanian animated film from 1960 traces the development of humanity from its earliest stages through a series of simple line drawings. It shows a stick figure evolving across time and technology, highlighting the fragility and absurdity of human progress.

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What happens

Homo sapiens este un film de animație românesc din 1960, regizat de Ion Popescu-Gopo. În 1982, Gopo a regizat un film de animație cu un titlu asemănător: Quo vadis homo sapiens (1982). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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