New Janko the Musician

5.8
1961 0 hr 10 min Animation

In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.

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Reviews

Platicsco
1961/06/01

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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Kidskycom
1961/06/02

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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Dynamixor
1961/06/03

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Billy Ollie
1961/06/04

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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MartinHafer
1961/06/05

This Jan Lenica animated short reminds me a bit of the animations done by Terry Gilliam for "Monty Python's Flying Circus", though it isn't nearly as clever or well done. But, like Gilliam, Lenica appeared to have taken pictures (mostly drawings) and cutting them out--and animating them using stop-motion. While such films might interest me, this one never really caught my attention mostly because the quality of the animation is suspect and the story itself not especially enjoyable. In fact, much of it is very surreal and weird--just plain weird. While I could try to describe it, it really defies description and consists of flying machines, a bizarre mechanical cow, angels, Pegasus, money falling from the sky and other things--almost randomly placed in the film. It made my brain hurt but I can appreciate the work that went into this.

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