The Hand (Ruka, 1965) is a Czech animation by renowned animator Jiří Trnka.
“This was Trnka’s last, and some say greatest, film. An artist, happy in his life, devotes his time making a pot for his favorite flower. But a giant hand appears and orders him to create a statue of a hand instead. He resists at first, but the hand is all powerful and he is forced to submit, at the cost of his liberty and ultimately his life. This darkly humorous allegory on totalitarianism, which won the top prize at the Annecy International Animation Festival, was banned in Communist Czechoslovakia.”
excerpt obtained from www.rembrandtfilms.com
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