Most Interesting (Probably) Untranslated Films From Europe

First we have what appears to be a good hand drawn film I can find from Czechoslovakia which is more known for its puppet films.It is directed by Vaclav Bedrich from the year 1955. Here is a torrent site which has the film on it. Be warned that this site may not be completely safe.

https://ulozto.net/!aUfwZhDy/cert-a-kaca-55-animovany-dvbt-cz-romin-avi

Next we have from 1969, Ukraine's animated film Mystery Bouffe directed by David Cherkasskiy. This film has live action, cutouts, and hand drawn animation.

The next animated film that intrigues me is a film from Spain from the Basque directed by Juan Batista Berasategui. Its title is loosely translated as Pumpkin Tripod according to Google Translate. It seems like a very interesting surprise so far. It would have probably gone pretty far up on my Most Intriguingly Bizarre Animated Films list.



Then we move onto the more interesting of what seem to be Latvia's two animated features: The Cat's Windmill directed by Roze Stiebra in 1994.

These are the European animated films which are probably untranslated into English which I found the most interesting. There are some interesting films from other places that haven't gotten much attention so I may just do a post on some of those. If there is anybody out there who speaks one of these languages in addition to English, maybe you could translate one of these films and in so doing, bring them the attention of a larger audience.

Better Sites for Browsing Animated Films Than Wikipedia

As you've probably observed, Wikipedia has changed the list of animated films so that you can only look at a time period ranging from a year to a decade at a time. To make matters worse they even show the films with the highest grosses before you click on the individual year's pages. Fortunately there are a couple of alternatives. The first is a list on Letter Box D and the second is a list that hasn't been updated since 2009 but has one page per decade up until the 2000's. I've looked for similar lists before but its seems that I find what I'm looking for sometimes when I'm looking for something else.

https://letterboxd.com/jossm/list/every-animated-film-made-from-1888-present/

http://animation-movies-list.blogspot.com/search/label/2000

I've browsed through the whole list and made many new discoveries. The great thing about this list is that there's no shortsighted Wikipedia authorities to get rid of all the pages to films that they deem unimportant. There's a lot of films that may or may not be good, especially from the 2000's onward. I will soon be posting some untranslated films from Europe that I found the most interesting. One of them I found on the Letter Box D list. If the links here don't work, that's OK because I recently added them to the Relevant Animation Links section.

Expect that next post soon. In the meantime, if you want to browse that Letter Box D list then go ahead. At some point soon I'll need to update the list of films for the new titles I've found and also the film availability list because of the dramatically changing web landscape. Keep enjoying animation!