Jan Švankmajer
Director
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1991)
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).
Keywords: tmdb.stop-motion, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.reference-to-mikhail-gorbachev, imdb.reference-to-leonid-brezhnev, imdb.czech-republic-flag, imdb.flag-of-the-czech-republic, imdb.stalinism + 30 more, imdb.ideology, imdb.reference-to-konstantin-chernenko, imdb.reference-to-yuri-andropov, imdb.reference-to-yuri-vladimirovich-andropov, imdb.territory-name-in-title, imdb.murder, imdb.death, imdb.communism, imdb.surrealism, imdb.symbolism, imdb.reference-to-joseph-stalin, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.independent-short, imdb.central-european-history, imdb.psychotronic-short, imdb.psychotronic-short-film, imdb.czech-surrealism, imdb.psychotronic-film, imdb.stop-motion-animation, imdb.satire-comedy, imdb.for-grown-ups-animation, imdb.czech-psychotronic-film, imdb.psychotronic-comedy, imdb.czech-animation, imdb.bust-statue, imdb.classic-animation, imdb.central-europe, imdb.european-psychotronic-film, imdb.european-animation, imdb.czech-history
Production Companies: BBC
Country: Czechoslovakia
Production Countries:
Germany,
United Kingdom,
Czechoslovakia
Languages:
Czech
Recommendations
Runtime: 10 min.
Released: Feb. 13, 1991
Status: Released
Certification: NR