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Balablok Poster

Balablok

1973 | 7m | English

(203 votes)

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Popularity: 0.6 (history)

Director: Břetislav Pojar
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Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.
Release Date: May 10, 1973
Director: Břetislav Pojar
Writer:
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Keywords allegory, war absurdity
Production Companies ONF | NFB
Box Office Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Jan 19, 2026
Entered: Apr 30, 2024
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Name Character
Name Job
Pierre Provost Cinematography
Michel Descombes Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Maurice Blackburn Music
Roger Lamoureux Sound Recordist
Yvon Mallette Background Designer
Francine Desbiens Assistant Director
Clorinda Warny Assistant Director
Břetislav Pojar Director
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René Jodoin Producer
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Geronimo1967
7.0

The square people all get along nicely and politely with each other until one day they discover a round person. "It's ball-shaped" think they, and so they rather rudely use it as one. Then more round folk turn up and turn the tables. Next thing it's escalated to an army of squares forming the animat ... ed equivalent of a Roman turtle against a load of cannonball shaped round ones. Around and round it goes until there is nothing left but splinters and a rather satisfactory sort of hybrid shape that soon adopts exactly the same attitude to different as we've seen all along. This is clearly a metaphor for how human beings tend to treat those whose appearance is different and in many ways it reminded my of a more aggressive "Mr. Men" cartoon. If you're triangle shaped, then you'd best watch out.

Jan 23, 2025