Pictures from Memory (1990)

With fast changing visuals and moods, an artist presents his family's twentieth-century story. Although Stalin's sour image is in the background, a boy's childhood is a dreamlike world of colors and a butterfly. War interrupts youth and romance. Hitler, concentration camps, and conflagration finally give way to a mother and child (father is missing in the war), birds, beauty and more butterflies. The child grows. Pop culture arrives from America, but the grim shadow of Stalinism remains. The artist leaves to study in the West. Art, animation, sex, and love nourish him. He earns a diploma!

All Releases

Domestic (100%)
$42,684
International ()
Worldwide
$42,684
Summary Details
Domestic DistributorExpanded Entertainment
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Earliest Release DateMarch 30, 1990 (Domestic)
Running Time12 min
GenresAnimation Short War
The data below is for all 18 works shown as part of 22nd Annual International Tournée of Animation.

Domestic

AreaRelease DateOpeningGross
DomesticMar 30, 1990$768,304