Blok

Blok

1982 · 9 min · ★ 5.0 · Comedy, Drama

A picture of the life of residents of a modern apartment block. Thanks to the use of the trick technique, the film shows in cross-section apartments-similar boxes, the interiors of which are inhabited by different tenants. Hundreds of events happen in the big, busy moloch house: mundane and unusual, funny and tragic. However, they are all episodes to which no significance is attached. Life goes on...

Directed by Hieronim Neumann · Written by Hieronim Neumann

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