Thanks for this, I think you forgot to mention adolf born since he made alot of cartoons during this era. You can discuss him again when you make another video of this one. Such as the zofka cartoon and his mach and sebestova cartoon
Fantastic Planet being a French-Czechoslovak collaboration is perfect because the novel it is based on was written by a French author and both the novel and film took inspiration from the Prague Spring!
I *LOVE* your breakdown/guide videos about the wonderful world of Soviet (And eastern European in general) animation a lot, it's such an underappreciated side of the medium of Animation, as most of the viewing world is apparently only aware about American and Japanese animated media, as if other countries have never made any... On this topic, I would love to see a similar video about Georgian animation. I am from Georgia myself and I have to say, despite there not being a single Georgian animated feature film, most, if not all of the short-length films that have come out of the country are amazing. It might be a personal bias and everything, but they're genuinely really good. All of the films have something to say, they're funny, charming as all hell and have that wonderfully phsychedellic wacky imagery that Soviet animation is known for. Too bad that even though they can be found on RU-vid, most of them don't have any subtitles available.....
There is actually a Japanese Blu-ray release of many of his works but it was limited-edition and is highly sought after right now...really sad that it was such a limited release. Also have no idea if they come with Eng subs. But I have the Amazon listing if you want to see.
Great video! Much of the information was pretty interesting! I'll have to give it a try to one of those besides Fantastic Planet since I already watched it.
Growing up in Canada but with only access to public TV, I realize in my adult time how much of the materials I watched came from beyond the Iron Curtain. Jiri Trnka was a staple, there would be weird wordless shorts between shows, and every Saturday I would watch Colargol the bear! The NFB and the CBC were eminently multicultural organizations for the time, and were hiring a lot of refugees and immigrants. It would be interesting for you to delve into experimental work at the NFB, which was always at the forefront of animation and shorts. Start with Arthur Lipsett, he came from a Russian Jewish family and George Lucas got the idea of The Force from his movie 21-87.
Thank you as always for these amazing videos! They're great for spreading the love of animation to others! The "Where the Wild Things Are" adaptation is very nostalgic to me, it really felt like the book itself coming to life, I loved it a lot as a kid.
hello, how do you like Czechoslovak art? I see that you summarized it nicely:-)) as a child I saw the Zemen film when they scare the dinosaurs with pots:-) it stayed in my head but only now I found out what it was, thank you:-))
Fantastic Planet (La Planete Sauvage) is one of my favorite movies ever made! It’s a shame so few people know about it and the work of its director, Rene Laloux…
People are justified in their appreciation for Japanese animation, but I think that Czech animation is critically underrated. I used to watch a lot of Jiri Trnka and even Fantastic Planet when I was a teenager, without realizing they were made in Czechoslovakia
Honestly it's the case for many Eastern European country's animation, I suppose because most of it are shorts and there's not a lot of serial stuff... But for most of it to be so unknown is a real shame.
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Ok so guys I've been looking for one special cartoon and I still cannot find it.. Maybe someone can help,It is Soviet Union cartoon about poor man that used to carry water and give it to people for free and once he saved the city's main enemy and he gave him a box with paper and secret words and he found a cave full of gold.. That's all I remember please is someone know the name of the cartoon or a story tell me.
