Scenes With Beans
Eastern European Animation Showcase • 11m
Directed by Ottó Foky • 1976 • Hungary
A miniature oddball classic from Hungary’s celebrated Pannónia studio, one of eastern Europe’s great hotbeds of animation. Written by József Nepp, himself a master of stop motion film, Scenes with Beans is Ottó Foky’s absurdist allegory about the irrationality of the masses. On a planet populated by beans, the full spectrum of life and death plays out: from traffic accidents and jewelry heists to secret love affairs and political unrest.
SCENES WITH BEANS • BABFILM
Directed by Ottó Foky
Written by József Nepp
Cinematography by János Tóth, Ottmár Bayer
Music by Zsolt Pethö
In Hungarian with English subtitles
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