Plot synopsis

Fragment of an experimental animated film made in 1977 and never finished. This film is a montage of famous paintings by great painters that the authors set in motion based on their internal structure. The idea of ​​the film is to show that there is power and there are the people and that when the relationship between power and the people is unbalanced, when the people are totally crushed physically and morally, it explodes like a blocked cauldron. The people drive out power, a new power is installed and the people find themselves under the yoke of this new power. This is the essential idea.
The film starts from the experience of the French Revolution.

Commentaries

Высшие формы — «За день до нашей эры» Федора Хитрука и Юрия Норштейна, Юрий МИХАЙЛИН, seance.ru, 2020

Юрий Норштейн о работе над фильмом «За день до нашей эры», Yuri NORSTEIN, Юрий МИХАЙЛИН, seance.ru, 2020

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991), (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

- Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

Photos, videos, texts

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