Don Kihot (1961 short)
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| Directed by | Vlado Kristl |
| Music by | Milko Kelemen |
| Color process | Eastmancolor |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | SFR Yugoslavia |
| Language | none |
Don Kihot is a 1961 experimental animated short by Vlado Kristl for Zagreb Film. It is loosely based on Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Themes
[edit]The author reduced the characters in the short to Klee-style ideograms, with backgrounds being represented by abstract frescoes,[1] all of which is accompanied by atonal music.[2]
Reception and legacy
[edit]The short was blacklisted during the former Yugoslavia due to its rigid classification of art and society, which Don Kihot challenged.[1] The short won a number of prizes at international festivals, such as the main prize at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1962.[1] It is described as a "difficult but very poetic film" and a magnum opus for Kristl.[3] Speed and Wilsom state that the short "presents the eccentric individualist assailed by all the forces of the modern state - guns, radar, tanks, planes, patrols, armies - and in some amazing way the nonconformist deviationist Don triumphs over them all".[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Filmski leksikon". Filmski leksikon (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ "Don Quixote :: 25 FPS". 25 FPS. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ Bendazzi, G. (2015). Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets. CRC Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-317-51990-4. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ Blankenship, J.; Nagl, T. (2015). European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition. Film. transcript Verlag. p. 270. ISBN 978-3-8394-1818-5. Retrieved 2021-01-15.