Jan 01, 2008
8 min
Full-HD

Return (2008)

Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.

Category

Animation Science Fiction

Country

Germany Poland

Companies

HFF Konrad Wolf Se-Ma-For

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