Toreador’s Couplets from opera „Carmen”

The film inspired by classical music was made using classical animation. A musical piece from Bizet’s “Carmen” was used to make a film joke: boys are chasing a cat, which is finally rescued by a mouse. The mouse is dressed up as a toreador. Numerous gags contrasted with the pathetic music make the film very amusing.

Directed, screenplay, artwork and editing by Jacek Adamczak
Music composed by Georges Bizet
Music performed by Polish Radio Orchestra – Warszawa conducted by Zdzisław Górzński
Artistic supervision: Kazimierz Urbański (Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań)
Animated by Anna Dudek, Jacek Adamczak, Elżbieta Salomończyk
Photography by Krzysztof Szyszka
Sound by Mieczysław Janik
Produced by Grażyna Lipńska
Classical animation – painting on paper and celluloid, 35 mm, colour, 96 m, 03:30′, format 4:3
Date of production: 13.02.1991 © TV SFA-TVP SA

AWARDS:
DIPLOMA for the film direction, International Festival of Animated Films for Children – Biennial of Animation BAB’99, Bratislava, Slovakia / 1999
MAIN AWARD FOR ANIMATION for the year 1990, Association of Polish Filmmakers, Warszawa, Poland / 1992