Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Module 12: Eastern Europe


Now we've moved to the other side of Europe, to Eastern Europe. This includes the countries of Russia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. I was less familiar with the films from Eastern Europe because only a handful of films had made their mark in the Best Animated Short category, and Alexander Petrov was responsible for four of them. However, the ones that were honored by the Academy is only the tip of a much larger iceberg. Not to mention the films of Eastern Europe are rich in meaning, possibly due to the impact of being behind the Iron Curtain for decades.

Not much to say here. Let's move on.

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