Don Kihot (1961 short)
1961 animated short film by Vlado Kristl
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Don Kihot is a 1961 experimental animated short by Vlado Kristl for Zagreb Film. It is loosely based on Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
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| Directed by | Vlado Kristl |
| Music by | Milko Kelemen |
| Color process | Eastmancolor |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | SFR Yugoslavia |
| Language | none |
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Reception and legacy
The short was blacklisted during the former Yugoslavia due to its rigid classification of art and society, which Don Kihot challenged.[1] The short won a number of prizes at international festivals, such as the main prize at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1962.[1] It is described as a "difficult but very poetic film" and a magnum opus for Kristl.[3] Speed and Wilsom state that the short "presents the eccentric individualist assailed by all the forces of the modern state - guns, radar, tanks, planes, patrols, armies - and in some amazing way the nonconformist deviationist Don triumphs over them all".[4]