Grasshoppers (1990)

Original title

Cavallette

Directed by

Bruno Bozzetto

Genre

comedy film, historical film

Country

Italy

Runtime

9 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Italian animated short compresses the entire history of human civilization into nine minutes. It focuses on humanity's repeated tendency toward warfare and the pointless nature of conflict.

satiricalfast-paceddarkly comiccynicalcondensedprovocativeabsurdtragicomic

What happens

Grasshoppers (Cavallette) is an Italian animated short by Bruno Bozzetto which condenses the whole of human civilization into 9 minutes, focusing primarily on the human race's predilection for warfare and the vanity of war. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990, but lost to Aardman's Creature Comforts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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