ESTERHAZY

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The hero is a young, purblind and sawn-off bunny Esterhazy from the Esterhazy-Dynasty in Vienna. He is sent to Berlin by the Patriarch Count Esterhazy, to find a huge, healthy and beefy bunny woman near by some mysterious Berlin Wall. After a long, extensive search he finds his paradise (bunnies’ paradise that existed in the reality in between the East and West part of the famous Berlin Wall). Esterhazy will move there with the love of his life: Mimi, but as it is 1989… the Berlin Wall comes down…The story describes the most important political event of the recent European history – the Fall of the Berlin Wall from an unknown “bunny point of view”. With its humorous keynote the audience will live through the adventures of the hero-bunny Esterhazy the upheaval in that special time of European history.

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GENRE:
animation
COUNTRY:
Polska / Niemcy
RUNNING TIME:
25'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Izabela Plucińska
SCRIPT:
Izabela Plucińska, Anna Jadowska
EDITOR:
Dirk Schreier
CAST:
Maciej Stuhr, Maria Peszek, Wiktor Zborowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Manuel Rubey, Anna Fischer, Helmuth Krauss, Ludger Pistor
MUSIC:
Max Knoth
PRODUCTION:
Donten&Lacroix, Clay Traces

Izabela Plucińska »

Animated film director. Born in Poland, she now lives in Germany. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz and Film Animation of the Cinematography Department at the Lodz Film School, where she also completed her Ph.D. in the field of animation. She specialises in clay animation. Her filmography includes "Jam Session" (2005) - a winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Esterhazy" (2009) and "Sexy Laundry" (2015). Currently she is a teacher at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, at the same time she is working at her own production company, ClayTraces, and is back with "Portrait of Suzanne", her latest film, inspired by a short novel by Roland Topor.


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