The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)
- Original title
- Konec stalinismu v Čechách
- Directed by
- Jan Švankmajer
- Genre
- animation, comedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 42 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short animated film is a surreal critique of the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia. It uses stop motion and collage to create disturbing imagery that reflects on political oppression and the Velvet Revolution.
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What happens
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (Czech: Konec stalinismu v Čechách) is a 1990 animated surrealist short film by Jan Švankmajer. In 1990 the BBC asked Švankmajer to make a film about situation in Czechoslovakia. Švankmajer later remarked: "Despite the fact that this film emerged along the same path of imagination as all my other films, I never pretended that it was anything more than propaganda. Therefore I think it is a film which will age more quickly than any of the others." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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