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3.9/5 Mubi Release date 1962 Initial release 1962 Music director Jan Novák | 7.1/10 Letterboxd Running time 29 minutes Director Jiří Trnka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Springman & the SS, Prince Bayaya, The Czech Year, The Hand, The Emperor's Nightingale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cybernetic Grandma (Czech: Kybernetická babička) is a 1962 Czechoslovakian cartoon using stop motion animation. The genre is sci-fi, psychological drama and horror. It displays distopian future of humanity isolated and hollow by machines and cybernetic lifestyle. Movie is seen from eyes of little girl who is cared by cybernatic grandma looking like a hybrid between robotic wheelchair and giant moth. Character shows signs of disturbing cold insensitive behavior with contradiction to its sweat talk which is portrayted by mechanicly acurate and formaly prefect voice and language of Czech actress Otýlie Benšíková. At the end of the movie, little girl is rescued by its true biological grandma, who turns out the cybernetic one and takes care of her granddaughter.
Reference: MARTIN FLAŠAR//JAN NOVÁK, JIŘÍ TRNKA A JEJICH KYBERNETICKÁ BABIČKA//DOI: 10.5817/MB2013-1-7//MUSICOLOGICA BRUNENSIA 48, 2013, 1