Balance

1989 · 7min · Color · None

A group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.

IMDb rating - 7.9/10 from 5.2K users

Genres - Animation · Short · Drama

Director - Christoph Lauenstein · Wolfgang Lauenstein

Story line - The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall. This reasonably harmonious understanding is lost when one man pulls up a heavy trunk. In the ensuing struggle, balance is lost in more than one sense. —Kenneth Chisholm

Release date - 1989 (West Germany)

Countries of origin - Germany · West Germany

Also known as - Баланс

Production company - GHK Kassel · Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

Balance is a German surrealist stop-motion animated film, released in 1989. It was directed and produced by twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.

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