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The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia
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Wikipedia article
'The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia' is a 1990 animated surrealist short film by Jan vankmajer. In 1990 the BBC asked vankmajer to make a film about situation in Czechoslovakia. vankmajer later remarked: "Despite the fact that this film emerged along the same path of imagination as all my other films, I never pretended that it was anything more than propaganda. Therefore I think it is a film which will age more quickly than any of the others."
Plot
Stalin's bust is opened on an operating table, and this leads into an animated sequence which depicts Czech history from 1948, when it was taken over by Communists, to 1989, when the Velvet Revolution took place.
Reception
Janet Maslin of 'The New York Times' describes the film as being a "wonderfully apt short", and describes the plot of "rush[ing] a statue of Stalin through drastic surgery, cranks out clay workers on an assembly line only to grind them back into clay" is "droll, breakneck satire".
Release
The film aired on BBC Two in the UK on 3 June 1990.
References
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