TRAGEDY OF MAN

“Mother of God, what an accomplishment this film is. A nearly-three-hour adaption of an incredibly-difficult-to-perform antique play where Lucifer guides Adam from the Garden of Eden to the end of time, all done with painstaking attention to period-specific animation styles.” - COBRARocky, Letterboxd

More than 20 years in the making, THE TRAGEDY OF MAN is the sprawling, kaleidoscopic, galaxy-brained masterwork from iconic Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (SON OF THE WHITE MARE). It doesn’t get any more epic than this: a seemingly-endless animated scroll of gorgon-like demons, cave paintings springing to life, barbarian warriors, bejeweled pharaohs, knights and martyrs and prophets bleeding together -- one brutal age dissolving into another, passing like pages in a flipbook. Broken into many chapters (produced one at a time by Jankovics cobbled together funding), each section has a different visual style: a mindblowing tapestry of world art, cultures, symbols and rituals.