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Samac (1958 film) (1958)

Samac (1958 film) poster
Original title
Samac
Directed by
Vatroslav Mimica
Genre
animation
Country
Yugoslavia
Runtime
12 min
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A clerk struggles to keep up with machines in a changing world. The short film shows his daily frustrations in a matter-of-fact way.

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What happens

Samac (English: Loner) is a 1958 animated short directed by Vatroslav Mimica for Zagreb Film. The short won the studio's first international prize at Venice Film Festival. The short is described as a "mordant, yet moving depiction of a clerk fighting a losing battle with the machine age". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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