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A 10-minute fever dream where a schoolboy time-travels via textbook and crushes on a Neanderthal.
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An Encounter in a Dream (1957)

Surrealist Saturday morning cartoonYugoslavian weirdcorePrehistoric meet-cute

Overview

Animation

A boy falls into his prehistoric book and falls in love with a cave girl.

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Standout Aspects

Direction

Kostelac packs a feature's worth of ideas into ten minutes.

Best for:Solo: Weird little palate cleanser between normal movies.·Rewatch: New bonkers detail every viewing. Frame-by-frame it.
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Director

Nikola Kostelac

ReleasedJan 20, 1957
Runtime10m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feellight
Zagreb Film

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Cultural

The Zagreb School deliberately rejected Disney polish for raw, expressive lines—this is anti-Pinocchio energy.

Trivia

Kostelac made this between Communist Party-approved projects; the prehistoric setting let him sneak personal weirdness past censors.

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