The game (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The game |
| Original title | Igra |
| Country of production | Yugoslavia |
| original language | Serbian |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 13 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dušan Vukotić |
| script | Dušan Vukotić |
| production | Dušan Vukotić for Zagreb Film |
| music | Tomislav Simović |
| camera |
Mihail Ostrovidov Zlatko Sacer |
| occupation | |
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The game is a Yugoslavian, partially animated short film by Dušan Vukotić from 1962. The film mixes animation and real film sequences and is one of the director's experimental animated films.
action
A boy and a girl are sitting on the floor, surrounded by paper and colored pencils. The girl sharpens the pencils, but not the pencil of the boy whose lead broke off. The boy paints a car and the girl a flower - the boy lets the car run over the flower. The girl takes revenge by painting holes in the tires of the car. The boy uses the painted tow truck to bring the car back to him.
The girl paints a child with pigtails, the boy a mouse, which frightens the child. The child begins to meow and the mouse flees back to the boy, who is now painting a dog. The child can satisfy the dog with a painted bone. When the boy paints a lion, the child first takes refuge in a tree painted by the girl and later in a drawn house. When the lion does not leave the house, the child shoots a hole in his foot with a drawn rifle, which the girl treats with a drawn bandage.
The boy is now painting a tank that is rolling towards the house with the child, but the girl tears up the paper on which the tank is currently standing and the tank falls into the depths at the crack. The boy's bomber shoots at the house and the kid fights back with his painted rifle before the girl scrawls over the bomber and crashes it. The boy is now painting a rocket that is supposed to attack the house, the girl is drawing a large umbrella for the child, which it is holding over the house. When the boy, anticipating the crash of the rocket, hits his fist, an inkwell tips over and the sheet of paper with the house slowly turns black. Boy and girl start beating and then both start to cry.
Awards
The game was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1964 , but could not prevail against The Critic . Vukotić had already won an Oscar for best short animation film in 1962 with The Replacement .
Web links
- The game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The game on bcdb.com