You never hear about the nice things Hitler did. Probably there are very good reasons for that. But one thing he did do, or cause to be done, was boost the production of animated films in Czechoslovakia in the 40s, to make up for the fact that Hollywood cartoons, very popular in Europe, were now understandably no longer available. After the war, the animation studios kept going, and a wave of brilliant movies in a variety of media swept the film festivals and even crept onto TV in the west.Václav Bedrich began his directing career in 1950, as best we can judge from the patchy credits on the IMDb (several of the films I'm about to discuss are not listed there). In 1969 or 1970 he released the first of seven adventures made in the style of the adventure serials of the 1910s (i.e. Fantômas), but produced in cut-out animation form.
- 5/29/2015
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
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