ESTERHAZY

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.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Animowany
  • Country: Niemcy
  • Running time: 25
  • Year: 2009

Director: Izabela Plucińska

Script: Izabela Plucińska, Anna Jadowska

Music: Max Knoth

Editing: Dirk Schreier

Production company: Donten&Lacroix, Clay Traces

Trailer

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Tbh89YqTfA%22+frameborder%3D%220%22+allowfullscreen%3E%3C

About the director:

Izabela Plucińska

Izabela Plucińska

Animated film director. Born in Poland, she is now living 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, in 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.

At festivals:

DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (screening)

Istanbul Short Film Fesival, 2009 (screening)

24th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2009 (screening)

Brussels Animation Films Festival, 2010 (competition)

8th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival, London, 2010 (screening)

Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival, Taipei, 2010 (competition)

Festiwal Filmów Polskich „Wisła”, Moskwa, 2010 (screening)

6th New York Polish Film Festival, USA, 2010 (competition)

Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Film, Croatia, 2010 (competition)

Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)

International Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France, 2010 (competition)

Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF), 2010 (competition)

Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (competition)

Expresion en Corto, Mexico, 2010 (competition)

DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2010 (screening)

London International Animation Festival (LIAF), 2010 (screening)

Aye Aye Film Festival, France, 2010 (screening)

Fantoche Festival in Baden, Switzerland, 2010 (competition)

International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2010 (competition)

Ourense International Film Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)

Festival du cinéma européen en Essonne, France, 2010 (Prix Spécial des Lycéens )

Animatricks, Finland, 2010 (screening)

Festival on Wheels, Turkey, 2010 (screening)

International Festival of Animated Film BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010 (competition)

4th International Animation Festival ANIMANIMA, Serbia, 2010 (competition)

MyEurope Film Festival, Germany, 2010 (screening)

16. Festival on Wheels, Turkey, 2010 (screening)

20th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Australia, 2011 (competition)

Jameson Cinefest Miskolc International Film Festival, Hungary, 2011 (competition)

18th KROK International Animated Film Festival, Ukraine, 2011 (competition)

10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)

31st Festival Tous Courts -Aix en Provence, France , 2013 (screening)

20th Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2014 (screening)

5th China Independent Animation Film Forum, China, 2016 (screening)

Message to Man IFF, Russia, 2019 (screening)