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A Minor Genocide

2018 · 72 min

A somber, essayistic meditation that drifts between archival images and animated inner landscapes, asking quiet, patient attention as it weighs private grief against the scale of history.

Directed by
Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
Genres
Documentary, War, Animation
Starring
Magdalena Cielecka, Adolf Hitler, Teresa Ferenc
Overview
On a global scale, war is always either further away or closer. In the film we see the tragic day from many perspectives. The narrator talks, looks through photographs and documents, and talks about other wars, about other children: Japanese, Cambodian, Balkan, Rwandan, Syrian. Documentary footage mixes with animation to create a kind of inner world landscape.

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Directed by
Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
Genres
Documentary, War, Animation
Starring
Magdalena Cielecka, Adolf Hitler, Teresa Ferenc
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • death
  • grief
  • memory
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • animated
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
documentary, war, animation
Directed by
Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
Written by
Anna Janko, Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
Starring
Magdalena Cielecka, Adolf Hitler, Teresa Ferenc, Anna Janko, Zuzanna Majer
Music
Alex Gruz
Cinematography
Zdzisław Najda, Lukasz Lasica
Runtime
72 min
Country
Poland
Languages
Polish

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