The Town In Black
Mesto ve smutku
4 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1968
Cut-out animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Ivan Renc
Designer: Miroslav Stepanek

A cartoon paraphrasing the old fairy-tale motif of a bad dragon and suffering princesses. The film expresses the belief that a nation that gets used to life ruled by a tyrant is not able to live in freedom anymore and enthrones a new tyranny.

All films directed by Ivan Renc:
Dalibor's Tower • Indian Princess • Jerusalem Street • The Lighthouse Keeper • The Magician • Puppet, Man's Best Friend • The Sword • The Town In Black • The Tree and High Branch • The Tree and the Fence • The Tree and the Hen-pigeon • The Tree and the Little Donkey • The Tree and the Road • The Tree and the Well • The Tree and the Wind

All films designed by Miroslav Stepanek:
(About the) Thick Fog • (About) Mice In Tinfoil • And Don't Tell Me, Wendy • Animal Lover • The Apple Maiden • Billy the Tough And His Amazingly Strong Lasso • Billy the Tough And the Cheeky Hares • Billy the Tough And the Giant Mosquitoes • Black and White • Cats' School • Elahw the Whale • Forty Grandfathers • Hello, Kohlrabi • Hold Your Hat • How the Bears Went Swimming • How They Ate The Soup Of Wit • How They Met At Kolin • How They Went to Bed • How to Catch a Tiger • Misbehaving • On A Cat's Word • Painting Is For the Cats • The Panther Who Smelt Good • Princesses Are Not To Be Sniffed At • The Revenge • The Shooting Gallery • The Sword • The Town In Black • What the Rain Worm Did Not Have Any Idea About • What Went Bang?

 

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