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The Gift

Directed by Jiří Trnka, Jiří Krejčík

Czechoslovakia • 1946 • 15 mins. • In Czech

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon likened to the Citizen Kane of animation.

Genres: Animation