When People Were Still Living for Personal Reasons

The friends of humanity: the painter, the musician, the poet and the prima ballerina - and all others are the enemies of humanity. -Vlado Kristl

Conference of the Homeless

Delegations of the homeless from all over the world march in. This is a film in which there is nothing to see. - Vlado Kristl

Prometheus

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

Poor People

Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a “collective scream” of Cold War fear, was produced just after he left his country.