In the organizer's words:

LE BALLON ROUGE - THE RED BALLOON

F 1956 - 34 min - OmU - digitalDCP - FSK 6 - R/B: Albert Lamorisse
C: Edmond Séchan - D: Pascal Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Wladimir Popof a.o.

KATOK I SK RIP KA - THE ROLLER AND THE VIOLIN

USSR 1960 - 46 min - OmU - digitalDCP - ab 18 - R: Andrei Tarkowski
B: Andrei Konchalovski, Andrei Tarkowski - C: Vadim Yusov
D: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya a.o.

A boy who finds a red balloon and a boy who is fascinated by a red
fascinated by a red road roller - LE BALLON ROUGE and
KATOK I SKRIPA are two short films that were made four years apart and both
and both show the world from the perspective of a child.
from a child's perspective. Despite their different cultural backgrounds - one film was
film was made in post-war Paris, the other in Moscow - both films
both films have childhood and loneliness as their themes, but approach
approach the common themes in very different aesthetic ways.
LE BALLON ROUGE was the third film by photographer Albert
Lamorisse, with which he won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for best short film
Best Short Film and an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
KATOK I SKRIPA was the diploma film of the student Andrei Tarkowski
at the WGIK film school in Moscow and already shows many of the motifs
motifs that were to become typical in Tarkovsky's later works, such as the
use of water or mirrors.

Introduction on 13.1.: Jörg Rühenbeck
(Filmforum - Freundeskreis des Filmmuseums)