Apel (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Apel |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ryszard Czekała |
| script | Ryszard Czekała |
| production | Studio miniature filmowych |
| camera | Jan Tkaczyk |
Apel ( Appell ) is a Polish animated short film directed by Ryszard Czekała in 1971.
action
A train arrives, you can hear numerous people running. The crowd comes to a standstill and you can see that they are Polish concentration camp inmates. The crowd stands in front of an SS man who gives them the orders “up” and “down”. First, the crowd obeyed these commands. Suddenly, however, one man stops as the rest kneel down. When the man repeatedly refused to give the order to “down”, the SS man shot him. Then all prisoners stand up together. The SS man gives the order to fire and all prisoners are shot. At the end a man stops and the SS man walks over to him. The prisoner begins to alternate between standing up and falling down. Finally you hear that the SS man shoots him anyway.
production
Apel was implemented in cut-out animation. Critics praised the film as "one of the most extraordinary films ever made in Poland". "In a simple but powerful way, Czekala shows the terrible everyday life in concentration camps," wrote other critics.
Awards
In 1971 Apel won the Grand Prix (later Cristal d'Annecy) of the Festival d'Animation Annecy . In June 1971 he was also awarded the Bronze Lajkonik for Best Animated Film at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy .
Web links
- Apel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Apel on bcdb.com
Individual evidence
- ^ "One of the most unusual films ever made in Poland". Marek Haltof: Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory . Berghahn 2012, p. 123.
- ↑ Cf. Apel on interfilm.de ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
