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Fern Flowers (S)

6.5

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Original title

Fleur de fougèreaka

AKA

Fern Flowers

Year

1949

Running time

23 min.

Country

France

Director

Wladyslaw Starewicz

Screenwriter

Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz. Story: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Cast

Animation

Music

Daniel Lesur

Cinematography

Animation

Genre

Animation | Stop Motion. Short Film (Animated)

Synopsis

In Fleur de fougère (1949), he slowly pans along a medieval banquet table of Aesopian animals, stopping by each one for a quick comment or joke. Choosing to film fables at a time when cinema was embracing brash and sophisticated modern idioms, Starewicz might have seen himself as a preserver of an ancient tradition. It was as if he were drawn again and again to shedding light on the frailties of mankind by endowing the small animals he animated with the lineaments of human behavior. And he did it lovingly. He made his puppets himself—from wire, wax, chamois, straw, and cork—and one imagines they "told" him as much as he told them.

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Fern Flowers (S)

1949

Wladyslaw Starewicz

6.5

(26)