MOTO PERPETUO

Béla VAJDA
  • 1981
  • In Competition
  • Short Films
Palme d'Or - Short Film 1981

The film owes its title to the paganini piece that is used in it. It is the story of a crowed perpetual motion lift and little man who wants to get in it – a quiet unending struggle. The lift keeps on moving up and down, and our little man makes desperate – and futile – attempts to find an empty niche in it? He finds in it the most unexpected things and persons, and witnesses most fantastical happenings. By the end of the film, when already there are empty niches here and there, he has become so utterly exhausted looking on at the cascading events that he gives up his original plan of getting into the strange sort of lift.

Directed by : Béla VAJDA
Country: Hungary

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ALEPHAH

ALEPHAH

Gérald FRYDMAN
DILEMMA

DILEMMA

John HALAS
DISKZOKEJ

DISKZOKEJ

Jiri BARTA
KRAL A SKRITEK

KRAL A SKRITEK

Lubomir BENES
LE RAT

LE RAT

Elisabeth HUPPERT
MANOVERGASTE

MANOVERGASTE

G. Nicolas HAYEK
MASKIRANI RAZBOJNIK

MASKIRANI RAZBOJNIK

Petar LALOVIC
RAVNOVESIE

RAVNOVESIE

Boïko KANEV
TRCANJE

TRCANJE

Dusko SEVO
ZEA

ZEA

André LEDUC, Jean Jacques LEDUC