DEFA Animated Films without Comments - PROGRESS Film-Verleih

Play With Clay - part 1
(Spiel mit Lehm - Folge 1)
DEFA 1980, plasticine animation
Director, screenplay Walter Später
Photography Wolfgang Bergner
Music Addy Kurth
Color - 1 min.
A man and a woman are formed from a lump of clay.
At first they have difficulties finding each other but
when the contact is turbulently established, it results
in a screaming baby.
In the games the material clay tells us what we can do with this substance. One
shouldn't take these little acts of creation too seriously; it's fun and fantasy, and it
always ends where it begann - in a lump of clay.
Play With Clay - part 2
(Spiel mit Lehm - Folge 2)
DEFA 1981, plasticine animation
Director, screenplay Walter Später
Photography Wolfgang Bergner
Music Addy Kurth
Color - 1 min.
A house is formed from a lump of clay. Out of the
house emerge come a man, a woman and a child.
When the house transforms into an elephant, the
three struggle because they all want to ride it. After
they all settled down on it, an even bigger animal appears and devours them all.
Play With Clay - part 3
(Spiel mit Lehm - Folge 3)
DEFA 1982, plasticine animation
Director, screenplay Walter Später
Photography Wolfgang Bergner
Music Addy Kurth
Color - 2 min.
In the games the material clay tells us what we can
do with this substance. Clay is formed into the old,
well-known triangle constellation of sexes, and of
course the laughing third ist the winner among the claymen.
Play With Clay - part 4
(Spiel mit Lehm - Folge 4)
DEFA 1983, plasticine animation
Director, screenplay Walter Später
Photography Wolfgang Bergner
Music Karl-Ernst Sasse
Color - 3 min.
In the games the material clay tells us what we can
do with this substance. There's one too many in bed
to be happy - it's a mouse, or might it even be a
crocodile?
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