The Mole and the Car

Overview

Krtek finds a broken toy car a child has discarded, and slowly puts it back together. There is a level of moral instruction to this: as the little mole carefully repairs the toy, children are cautioned about the wastefulness of city life and mass consumption, but also encouraged to learn how things work. The automobiles function as an allegory for the larger mechanized world, and how it is at odds with the natural one

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1963

Original language

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Director

Zdeněk Miler

Writer

Zdeněk Miler

Cinematography

Ivan Masník

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0244597