The Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

[tintinnabula]

http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/watch-the-surrealist-glass-harmonica-the-only-animated-film-ever-banned-by-soviet-censors-1968.html

[MichaelMoser123]

i think that censorship had an element of arbitrariness; for example it is strange that they let this one through. (also i guess 1968 was bad timing because of a clampdown that followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDtxGnYPTQ

Also they had some quite surrealist animations during the seventies, like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAWPgwSWEco

or this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVtJudhNXiY

[pavel_lishin → MichaelMoser123]

I remember seeing quite a few science-fiction cartoons growing up there.

[h4nkoslo]

My favorite Soviet-era film is Shooting Gallery. Fantastic jazz (!) soundtrack & minimal to no dialogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRSsybt9wAo

[mojuba → h4nkoslo]

Never seen this one before, amazing.

[Razengan]

Speaking of animated films and Russia, if you're a fan of good sci-fi and/or foreign movies, I wholeheartedly recommend checking out Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza [1]

This has to be one of the best depictions of a truly alien world I've ever seen, mostly due to how the locals behave and their strange customs.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9om9eXWkxs

[Razengan → Razengan]

P.S. it's the animated remake of an older live-action film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/

[hyperpallium]

> Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors, (1968)

Actual title is less clickbaity than HN's. (copied when 5 hours old)

[tombert]

These animations always remind me of something you'd see in Monty Python by Terry Gilliam.

[malkia]

You can spot Lord Varys at 2:33