Money and Happiness
Eastern European Animation Showcase • 9m 48s
Directed by Nikola Majdak Jr. and Ana Nedeljković • 2022 • Serbia
A post-socialist update on the rich tradition of eastern European stop motion animation, Nikola Majdak Jr. and Ana Nedeljković’s Money and Happiness is a delightful, doleful takedown of capitalist credos. The workers of Hamsterland are blessed: they live in a perfect state, with a perfect economy, no unemployment, and endless consumerist potential. Just for good measure, negative sentiment is banned. But no amount of control can account for individual imagination.
MONEY AND HAPPINESS • O NOVCU I SREĆI
Written, directed, and animated by Nikola Majdak Jr. and Ana Nedeljković
Starring Masha Mileusnić
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