The Appeal (1971)
In a simple but powerful way, director Ryszard Czekala presents the horror that happened in Nazi concentration camps: prisoners’ dread, humiliation and lost humanity. Its directness and style is sometimes interpreted as a response to the trend of allegorical and philosophical filmmaking that dominated Polish animation in the 1960s.
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Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Blistering performances.
This is a 7-minute, award-winning, animated movie by the late Polish director Rszard Czekala. He was not even 30 when he made this back in 1970. It's an example of animation which is not joyful and bright, but black-and-white and scarily atmospheric. The language is German, but it's basically just a couple words repeated again and again. "Nieder!" means "Down!". "Auf!" means "Up!". and "Feuer"" means "Fire!" These are the commands shouted by the general in charge. The soldiers depicted in here look pretty intimidating and there is something spooky about the entire short film. It wasn't bad, but not really interesting to watch either. Even if it depicts the horrors of war realistically (or maybe because of that), I don't feel a need to watch it anytime soon again I have to say.