“Поетиката на песимизма“ като форма на протест в анимационното кино на Източна Европа
“The Poetry of Pessimism” as a Form of Protest in the Animation Films of Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the evolution of the vanguard movements in animation in some of the former Socialist countries. As early as the end of the 50s there emerge dark grotesque, eschatological predictions about the forth-coming downfall of humanity, graphic omens of spiritual and physical death that turn in to a specific form of protest against the dogmas of Socialist realism. This “poetry of pessimism” undergoes its asynchronous and non-linear development. And if in the case of Romania or the German Democratic Republic censorship quite efficiently hinders the emergence of extreme misanthropic, individualistic and vanguard-non-communicative films, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria or Hungary it is precisely such films that periodically mark the upward trend of artistic achievement and strive to free the language of art from ideological limitations.

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