The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Many years & Now Thought-about One of many Best Animations (1965)

For obvi­ous rea­sons, most artwork professional­duced below oppres­sive regimes comes off as painstak­ing­ly inof­fen­sive. For equal­ly obvi­ous rea­sons, the uncommon works that crit­i­cize the regime have a tendency to take action reasonably indirect­ly. This was­n’t a lot the case with The Hand, essentially the most well-known brief by Czech artist and stop-motion ani­ma­tor Jiří Trn­ka, “the…