Synopsis:
To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
- Director:
- Max Andersson, Helena Ahonen
- Year:
- 2012
- Running time:
- 76 min.
- Technique:
- Puppet Animation, Mixed media
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Max Andersson
- Script writer:
- Max Andersson
- Music composers:
- Gnjevni Crv, Delfini, Elektricni Orgazam, Idoli, Indexi, Klopka za Pionira, Dubioza Kolektiv, Crveni Koralji, Laibach, Luna
- Editor:
- Max Andersson
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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