Crac

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Movie
Original title Crac
Country of production Canada
original language French
Publishing year 1981
length 15 minutes
Rod
Director Frédéric Back
script Frédéric Back
production Frédéric Back
for Société Radio-Canada
music Normand Roger
camera Claude Lapierre ,
Jean Robillard

Crac is a 1981 Canadian animated short film directed by Frédéric Back .

action

Québec in winter: a man walks into the forest and cuts a tree that falls to the ground with a loud CRAC . He transports the tree trunk with his horse and processes it into a rocking chair over several stages . He gives this to his girlfriend, who is delighted. A short time later, the wedding takes place, which becomes a lavish party with dance and music.

Spring comes and while the woman is knitting in the rocking chair, the man tills the fields and sows grain, which is loaded in bundles in autumn. The woman is expecting a child. The snow covers the landscape again, the birth of the child is celebrated. Sitting in the rocking chair, the father calms the crying baby down. The child grows up and the green rocking chair is painted red. Child 1 is followed by child 2 and finally twins are born. While the tallest boy stands sideways on the rocking chair, he watches his mother, who is holding the three smaller children in her arms and lulling them to sleep. When all three are asleep and the mother admonishes the boy to rest, he steps on the rocking chair and breaks a seesaw leg. The father has to grind a new one.

The boy soon used the rocking chair as an imaginary train , while other children used it as a “fishing boat” on the high seas. The rocking chair becomes a cave, horse and racing car. When he was taken to Mardi Gras and taken for a walk on the ice, there was a collision with other skaters and the backrest and other parts were broken. Once more the chair is glued and now painted yellow.

The years go by, the children move out and the chair now serves as a resting place for the father in old age by the stove. When he breaks through in the decrepit chair, he angrily throws him out of the house. The house is being sold. What remains is the rocking chair in the snow. It goes unnoticed, even when high-rise buildings are being built around it, a nuclear power station is being used for demonstrations and is being converted into a museum for modern art. Shortly before it is disposed of, the chair is discovered by the museum guard. He has it painted in bright colors and uses it again as a seat in the museum. The chair is soon discovered by children, who are now allowed to swing on it in pairs. The museum closes in the evening, the chair remains in the dark. He begins to rock and the images of his past come back to life.

production

Crac was published in 1981 and was shown at the Festival de Cine de Huesca in Spain that year . The film has no dialogues.

Awards

Crac won in 1982 the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ".

Crac was awarded the Premio Danzante at the Spanish Festival de Cine de Huesca in 1980 and the Grand Prix at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1982.

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