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Klub odlozenych
25 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1989
Combined
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Jiri Barta
Designer: Michal Krska

Laid off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old abandoned warehouse. Other mannequins are brought to the warehouse which are "old" as well but from a "younger generation". The two groups must live together which is not easy for them at all.

Awards: FICC Prize - Oberhausen 1990, The main prize in the category - Montecatini Terme 1990, "Golden Mikeldi" - Bilbao 1990, Second prize - Madrid 1992

All films directed by Jiri Barta:
A Ballad About Green Wood • The Club of the Laid Off • The Design • Disc jockey • The Last Booty • The Pied Piper of Hamelin • Riddles For a Candy • The Vanished World of Gloves

All films designed by Michal Krska:
The Club of the Laid Off