Turning Points in Hungary

Animated gingerbread, 'Sisyphus' by Marcell Jankovics and more.

The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968)

Happy Thursday! This issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter is all about Hungarian animation — as seen in three great films.

The projects we’re featuring today come from the ‘60s and ‘70s, when Hungary was communist: Sisyphus (1974), The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968) and Honeymation (1975). They’re important products of the so-called Hungarian School of Animation, which contained many of the most experimental animators in the whole Eastern Bloc.

We’ve mentioned all of these films in the newsletter before — they’re favorites of ours. Yet we haven’t explored them in detail (or embedded full versions) until now. We’re excited to do so, and to bring you a number of details never before printed in English.

Here we go!