A Beginner's Guide to Romanian Animation

[@kubricklynch]

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[@flavi9692]

Romania mentioned 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🥹🤧

[@pinguinulnervos2383]

Im romanian

[@hordanix]

Votati Codrescu!

[@valy225]

​@hordanixVotati cioara de pe card - Pacala 2

[@Xccr1]

🦅🦅🦅

[@tovarasudrugas477]

​@hordanix io votez Codrin

[@oanabalaci1107]

Amazing video! Thank you! Just learned more about my own country’s animation than i did in film school.

[@kubricklynch]

Glad I could help!

[@cosmin2528]

Me too!

[@andreeazed]

My thoughts exactly! Coming from arts university.

[@thecyberdork776]

You missed to mention the Romanian animated series Miaunel și Bălănel which was broadcasted in the USA by CBS, NBC, ABC, Pinwheel and Nickelodeon from 1975 to 1983.

[@valy225]

He forgot the animated parody about the ex president basescu

[@Cherub4040]

I’m Romanian but it didn’t cross my mind the idea of history in animation and the fact that I didn’t know we had quite a backbone in animation it makes me feel ASHAMED 💀💀💀

[@MsRainingDays]

Not many Romanians had a TV before '89, so I think you're just a normal Romanian nothing to be ashamed of

[@Gilotopia]

Best rundown of romanian animation ever made

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you so much!!!

[@carboodle610]

probably the only one, to be frank

[@elan5614]

i'm romanian, aiming to study and become an animator myself, and somehow never knew my country had such a rich history of the same kind of art i want to make, this video is briliant, thank you so much!!

[@kubricklynch]

You are welcome, thank you for watching!

[@roberts_acc]

Omg same!

[@justjulia1720]

Thank you SO MUCH for covering Romanian animation in such detail. I'm Romanian and I love animation. I even wanted to be an animator myself at some point. It's a huge shame that most of this history is forgotten. Most Romanians have no idea about this stuff beyond Ion Popescu Gopo and the Mihaela series. Apropo, dacă locuiți în București, să știți că e un festival de film anual numit "Animest". E pe la începutul lui octombrie și e șmecher rău că se focusează pe animația "indie". De exemplu eu am văzut filmul cu Marona pentru prima dată în cadrul festivalului. Mereu au filme super interesante și ieșite din tipar-ul mainstream. (By the way, if you live in Bucharest, there's an annual film festival called "Animest". It's at the beginning of October and it's really cool because it focuses on indie animation. For example, the first time I saw the Marona movie was in this festival. They always have unusual movies that don't fit the mainstream)

[@PetreChiriac]

Mă e bine

[@rawkeh]

OMG I was convinced the Delta Space Mission was just something I dreamt up in kindergarten, nobody else seems to remember it

[@thecyberdork776]

Same!

[@smokedmeats5506]

19:30 I have to mention that "Strada Speranței" would actually translate to Hope Street rather than "Mercy Street", Strada Milei would be Mercy Street

[@kubricklynch]

Yeah, that's just what it was released as, not a literal translation.

[@melchiade13]

The film was realeased as Mercy Street for the english market. I should know, I worked on it :)

[@_vla]

RObotzi is a classic bro, the most memorable thing related to it is when my cousin met the creator of the series in a random shop in Cluj and made a selfie lol.

[@ytdanytevero]

to my shame, not even I, as a romanian didn't knew about some of these artworks. Amazing video!

[@htoaletaarxidatet]

tigani au cam furat din indentitatea noastra... spun asta ca un greco roman..

[@robotickyuu]

Hey, I just wanted to say that I love your videos abt Eastern European animation because of how well made and in depth they are! Also, if you can, please make a video about Turkish animation history too, because despite how unknown it is (hell, I don't even know if we made as awesome animations as Eastern European countries and I'm saying this as a Turkish person lol), I bet it would be a super interesting topic to explore and I would love to learn more about my country's animation history. Sending love and support!!

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you! I will look into Turkish animation!

[@Wyattinous]

I would have never known about European fantasy/animation were it not for you. Really opening up the world to an American like me ❤

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Nickelodeon used to play some of this in the 80's.

[@Wyattinous]

@@ChristopherSobieniakno kidding? I was born in the mid 90s and am only just now hearing Nickelodeon is older than that decade 😮

[@kubricklynch]

Glad I could help!

[@barrymoore4470]

Really enjoyed this. Mihail Badica's evocative short 'Icar', which I first saw as a lad as part of the 1977 Fantastic Animation Festival that toured U.S. cinemas that year, is one of my favorite films, while Popescu-Gopo's "litte man" is as iconic a character as any in animation. I am only sorry that no mention was made of ethnically Hungarian but Romanian-born and reared Zoltán Szilágyi Varga, who has since emigrated to Hungary but got his start in Romania with such provocative shorts as 'The Gordian Knot' and 'Arena'. I would be interested, given your attention on Eastern European cinemas, to see an episode devoted to Albanian animation, that small country getting a late start in that field and often overlooked in histories of the art, but which has produced some distinctive work deserving wider attention.

[@TudorIrimescu]

Buddy of mine brought me to an old cinema in Bucharest where we watched a bunch of old animation films created during the communist era by a studio called Animafilm, those were some of the trippiest animations I've seen and they didn't have access to fun substances back then. After the screenings some of the old directors gave interviews on stage mentioning censorship and the anti regime messages behind the animations.

[@WitchStar_12]

I am glad that I found this video, I really wanted to learn more about the romanian animation industry, as a romanian I am saying that you did a great job and thank you for making this video!

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you!!

[@theflibbertigibbet3885]

Beautiful work, as always. Your videos are a godsend for my own self education in animation

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you! Glad I could help!

[@paulacostrut5338]

I've been waiting for a video about Romanian animation since seeing your other videos about animations from "beyond the iron curtain". Maria Mirabela was a comfort movie for my mother and I while I was growing up, and seeing newer animations only makes me wish it was more joyful, more optimistic. Honestly that could be said for the entirety of post-'89 Romanian cinema.

[@thatcharlotte3248]

Hi, this is really well-produced and documented and, frankly, absolutely amazing. In an era where so much of education content online is mass produced, pop-culture or meme influenced “slop”, this was a breath of fresh air. I’m Romanian, and, while I’ve known about some of the films and shorts featured in this video, Romanian animation is something I never bothered to read much about until now. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for exposing me to this topic. ❤

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you so much for the kind words!

[@noisecorerap]

Sending love from Romania ❤ great video

[@voinea12]

I was born in romania (2004) and I didn't know about any of them, other than the web ones, thank you!

[@paprika9866]

Im so glad that somebody finally makes a video about this topic , it is something that not so many people pay attention .

[@nicholaslull1415]

I’ve actually seen Delta space mission is actually pretty good

[@SunnySunny-hc7zm]

God man as a romanian I appreciate so much the fact that you said the artists names in a romanian accent, I've watched all your other videos about animation and I was so overwhelmed with happyness to see a video about our countrys art

[@kubricklynch]

Aw so glad I could make you happy!

[@phonecallsarejustoverquali1556]

Love these videos about the animation tradtions of various countries. Obviously there is still much to cover in terms of east and west of the Iron Curtain etc. But I'd wager it could be expanded to cover more or less every country on the face of Earth. Just think of the differences between 20th century Chinese and Japanese animation, or, for that matter, between British and American/Hollywood or Franco-Belge (for lack of a better term) animation in the same period.

[@kubricklynch]

It may take me my whole life but I am planning on trying to cover the whole world!

[@phonecallsarejustoverquali1556]

@@kubricklynch I'll be there for it.

[@jeremytittle1857]

​@@kubricklynchThese vids are very well-made. I've seen some of them in a short time, and I'm a huge fan of this series now. I'll definitely appreciate each new installment of this series. Subscribed!

[@CosminNeagu]

Haplea was also one of the first romanian comics too. It was made way before the animation and was a very popular character. Also, Gopo is like a romanian Walt Disney. I hope his animations will be more widely available and better restored.

[@KawaiiStars]

Found new favourites today, thanks for covering these animations ❤

[@daniel-ht4gu]

i love these deep dives, especially into soviet and eastern european work! i would be very interested to see you do a deep dive into irish animation history at some point :)

[@mossmoss2019]

i've been waiting for this video for soooo long

[@Furbtastic]

I grew up with the Russian version of Maria Mirabella! I didn’t know this was Romanian until now somehow.

[@chisinau1302]

It was a soviet-romanian production,

[@mimisor66]

​@@chisinau1302I am Romanian and never knew that. I know about a soviet-Romanian musical children's movie named The goat with three kids

[@mimisor66]

​​@@chisinau1302I am Romanian and never knew that. I know about a soviet-Romanian musical children's movie named "Mama" based on the Romanian folktale The goat with three kids

[@chisinau1302]

@@mimisor66 Da, l-am privit și eu. Nu știam, dar aparent e producție româno -sovietico-franceza

[@mihaineag3831]

Thanks for the video! I am so glad when people talk about aspects of Romanian culture. The guide was excelent, though I must say that you forgot an old web series, namely "Luzării de pe Electrolizei" (The Loosers from Electrolizei Street). The series follows the life of four characters, Fratica (from Romanian word for brother 'frate') - which represents the average Romanian who lived in the communist period with his language and behaviour , Gusteru' (the name being from a species of lizards) -which represents the 'newer guard' (the Romanian borned in the '90s) with his modern clothing and tricks-, Unguru' (the Hungarian),which represents the friendly relationship between Romanians and Hungarians (due to our history there are still some tensions left to this day) being also a constant alcoholic, and finaly Copilu' (the Kid) which represents the third generation of Romanians (post '90s), very clever and with many tricks up his sleeves. Here you can find the original episodes (kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXWTi6t-j9eCkJo) which were animated. Their adventures are humourous and make fun of old pop-culture and social situation in Romania. After that period of animation the studio (which was formed by just two guys) went on to further write scripts for this show but this time only for radio stations (and KZbin audio-only clips) and a new name: Unguru Bulan ('bulan' here meaning 'good luck'). The playlist can be seen here:kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYbUdJathNmsadk. In contrast with the 'RObotzi' series that you mentioned, the guys kept producing episodes for this to this day back to animted form (though with an inferior quality in my opinion). I hope that feedback helps and thanks again for the guide!

[@kevinq8005]

It's insane how much better Eastern Europe animation was compared to the U.S. in the 70s and 80s

[@barrymoore4470]

It does seem more overtly experimental and less beholden to commercial interests.

[@kevinq8005]

​@@barrymoore4470 it definitely was I mean the animation industry almost collapsed in the 70s and 80s in America and most of the cartoons felt like Scooby Doo rip offs

[@MrGabrielMediaVideos]

It's getting more cult following ultimately.

[@valy225]

Im romanian and never heard of any of the animations mentioned in the video - Then i seen Robotzi and 2 Degeaba and that war animation that i seen on tv in summer

[@hassans3130]

Always happy to see a new video of yours. Very inspiring thank you!

[@David-qs9yl]

This topic is one I was very curious about, but there was no video made like this. Thank you!

[@OlimpiuVuia]

Thanks

[@MichaelBoothofOz2009]

I think if you could, I'd like for you to cover Romanian fantasy films (I'd like to hear your opinions on Gopo's live action films, as well as the films by Elisabeta Bostan).

[@julianmarco4185]

One thing that comes to mind from the 2010s is the animated satirical show named Animat Planet, which was specifically made to make a satire of our political leaders at that time. It might be cringe, but it was the first high budget show on the 2nd most popular television channel Antena 1.

[@thewindshecriesmary]

Man I love this guy

[@lingsang_in_the_trees]

Does anyone know Decebal Sį Traian? It's a lost romanian animation and I've been looking for it.

[@calgatekeep]

Brought all my friends here to watch

[@thecyberdork776]

Awesome Video! Now you could do a video on Polish Animation.

[@kubricklynch]

Poland is next!

[@robotickyuu]

@@kubricklynch YIPPIEEEE

[@DetonatressM]

To this day I do not know if a sci-fi cartoon I saw as a kid in the early 90s was made in Romania or other country. All I remember about it is that: - There were 4 main characters: a boy astronaut in blue, a girl astronaut in red with a ribbon on her head, a yellow robot named Plux who had gem-shaped red eyes and blue spiraled ears and his chest had gray drawers, and the 4th member was a fat dog in an astronaut costume, and had a big black nose, I think his name was Pluto. - There was one episode where they landed on a planet with some kind of octopus-amoeba aliens and they captured the crew and threw them into a room, sentecing them to the "Laughing torture", where they were tickled by robotic hands that came out of the walls.

[@thecyberdork776]

I believe that movie might be the 1980 Japanese Anime Phoenix 2772, known in Romanian as Pasărea de foc spațială.

[@guillermocervisalmeron2209]

Thank you as always to make these videos!!

[@andreeawddp9521]

Maria Mirabela and Veronica are my childhood animations I still rewach them from time to time to give my iner child innocent and cozy feeling of childhood ❤

[@animagicfilm]

Veronica is not animation

[@bluemym1nd]

RObotzi deserves a whole video tbh. I don't think anything before or after it came close to reaching their level of popularity. And it's well deserved, too. A toddler and an old man could watch it and they would both find it funny

[@qkahn6540]

At animated web series you also have Unguru' Bulan. Great video!

[@nieaktywny7788]

It would be pretty interesting if you made videos about former soviet republics' animation or movies (you mentioned mostly Russian animation in Soviet cinema, separate videos about eg. Lithuania would've been great, just like all your videos): -Latvia🇱🇻 -Lithuania🇱🇹 -Armenia🇦🇲 -Azerbaijan🇦🇿 -Georgia (Sakartvelo)🇬🇪 -Estonia🇪🇪 -all ,,stans"( Kazakhstan🇰🇿, Uzbekistan🇺🇿, Turkmenistan🇹🇲, Tajikistan🇹🇯 and Kirgistan🇰🇬) -Moldova🇲🇩 (maybe?) -Ukraine🇺🇦 -Belarus🇧🇾

[@RaidenSetsuna]

What!? This is random and amazing! Thanks for digging up the history. Mulțumesc

[@Byzantium.]

So educational!

[@king-of-a-thing]

Could you do Croatian animation? Zagreb was the center of Yugoslav animation and the country created more films after the fall of socialism.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Croatia was covered already in the vid on Yugoslavian Animation.

[@usefulaccount1835]

Was finished already

[@dragossh]

As a Romanian, my parents mentioned Mihaela, but I've never even remotely heard of any of the other ones on your list. I didn't even know Romanian animation existed.

[@LaPaginadiLeonardo]

Great video, very informative! I'd like to know, when there is a chance, one about italian animation.

[@axel-xm5qm]

Brilliant

[@LuigiCotocea]

We did watch all Gopo small aninations on youtube back in school around 4th grade

[@OziJimmy20]

This is way too underrated

[@AlexAntohe]

This is amazing, thank you so much!!!

[@yuzurukys]

Thank you so much for this video! I watched Maria Mirabela in primary school and I wasn’t even aware it was the first romanian feature film :0

[@kubricklynch]

You are welcome!

[@Shelley00999]

Thank you for this!

[@grumpyre28]

Seeing this vid coming out is so funny to me because just a few weeks ago ive been searching about animations made by people feom my country:))

[@adrian-florinbrad8069]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! ❤

[@mikaela12979]

Great video! I'm Romanian and except for Gopo and the "Mihaela" series ( which I would religiously watch as a kid having the same name as the main character), I was not aware of any other animations done by Romanians. From the modern ones I've only watched Robotzii - funny stuff. Very informative video thanks a lot❤!

[@claudiachelaru_]

There is also “ Death & The Knight” from 2020

[@TheHalflingLad]

9:54 - Wooooah, wait a moment! You just sent me down a very particular rabbit hole. Antonescu's character designs for "Robinson Crusoe" look unsettlingly similar to those in "Three from Prostokvashino", which Vladimir Popov directed later that same decade. Specifically, the cat, dog, and Robinson himself look like early sketches of Matroskin, Sharik, and Fyodor's Dad. I have never heard of any connection between Popov's team and Antonescu, but there's clearly some sort of a thread there, made all the more curious by the fact the 1973 film was not released publicly. What in the world?..

[@thecyberdork776]

Robinson Crusoe was released publicly by the Italian production partner.

[@bobsbigboy_]

this channel is peak

[@BlueFox21]

great vid but you forgot animat planet which is an animated satirical comedy about romanian politicians and celebrities in the 2000's (sadly some episodes are lost but only a handful can be found)

[@Cekkkko21212]

Here's a fun fact: The license plate of the car in TADC Episode 4 somewhere around the 5:20 mark is romanian.

[@sephiroth420miukus2]

I’d be interested in Chinese animation, in my research I couldn’t find some of those shorts online

[@usefulaccount1835]

Challenge to win was an object show is made and animated in romania

[@CrisURace]

RObotzi is awesome!!! And the creators teached me so many good things!! #LLTCM

[@TNTBingo-co7px]

I am Romanian and I want to make animated cartoon shows

[@Game_Hero]

Imagine having that big of an ego that you wouldn't let anyone else make feature films if that wasn't you the first to do it.

[@barrymoore4470]

We should remember that this is hearsay, and hasn't yet been officially corroborated.

[@BlueFox21]

ROMANIA MENTIONED RAHHHHHH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SomaCoreaix]

Hi Evan! Brilliant work as usual researching these fascinating videos! Do you have any links for The Best Customer and/or Sasha?

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you! Sadly I could only find trailers for those shorts.

[@SATORvii]

This video is absolutely amazing! I didn't know there are so many Romanian animations done in the communist era. Thank you for all the great effort you put into creating this short documentary!

[@kubricklynch]

Glad you liked it!

[@mr.m2675]

maybe germany has some animations but i can only think of 3 so far: werner by Brösel, whoever made sendung mit der maus, and pumuckel und meister eder

[@thinkbolt]

16:07 Can you recommend a good digital transfer of Icar? I am familiar with it from the Fantastic Animation Festival of the late 70s, but the picture quality is terrible.

[@kubricklynch]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJPakJ2IlraFhZo This is the only version I found.

[@coolgabe22013]

I like when KZbinrs talk about my country

[@aresgood1]

foarte tare frate

[@_Pinkguy_]

stie careva unde as putea uramri toate filmele si shorturi alea vechi romanesti intr-o caliate destul de decenta? multumesc anticipat!

[@teobratuteodor1728]

19:32 its translated Hope's (Not Mercy's) Street.

[@kubricklynch]

The English title is Mercy Street, movies often don't use literal translations for international titles.

[@teobratuteodor1728]

@kubricklynch this explains it.

[@johnwill3119]

Where did you find the materials necessary to make the video? Thank you.

[@TheKaos90]

LMAO the delta space mission looks like a Joel Haver skit

[@PotatoOfAwesome]

It'd be nice to find a link for Novacestii, I have no idea how to look it up either from its English title or its original title. To be honest, I don't even really know how you knew this existed.

[@kubricklynch]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWO2polon6l8l6s

[@bogdanburlacu2951]

Can someone help me Strada Sperantei (mercy street) ?

[@kubricklynch]

I could not find that one anywhere, sadly.

[@burner555]

"Speranța" means hope

[@valy225]

Search this: Mercy Street/ Strada Sperantei - Official Trailer 2016. Film romanesc de animatie

[@Alex-ez1lk]

Unless I missed it, you left out the 2019 short Opinci.

[@vladpopescu6265]

He forgot Animat Planet made by Divertis

[@Danielandthebirds]

Great video as always, where can I watch the Island by Anca Damian? Thank you!

[@kubricklynch]

Thank you! Unfortunately I could only find the trailer for that film!

[@Danielandthebirds]

@@kubricklynch Ah thanks anyway! looks good!

[@pinguinulnervos2383]

Însfârșit!(finaly)

[@Ikigai-gg1wx]

Wow original concepts on youtube? No way!

[@orangekameleon7779]

Will you do a polish animation topic in the next video?

[@kubricklynch]

Yup!

[@biancateslaru]

There was a romanian animated movie that I saw a few times as a kid with a spider that lives underwater. He befriends different creatures and insects from the water and outside of it and learns different lessons or things about their lifestyles. The problem is that I cannot remember the name of the movie. If someone knows what I'm talking about and knows how it's called please let me know

[@thecyberdork776]

The movie you describe might be the Hungarian animated movie Vizipók-Csodapók from 1982, based on an animated TV series with the same name, produced from 1978 to 1988.

[@biancateslaru]

@thecyberdork776 that means I watched the romanian dub and assumed that the movie was romanian. That's why I couldn't find it 😭 Thank you so much 💓

[@matenagy9942]

Hungarian animation is the best in my opinion. Probably because communism after 1960 was soft compared to the neighborhood. That's why directors can be more experimental and get more money from the government.

[@barrymoore4470]

Yugoslavia also had a particularly strong output during that era, and for similar reasons, the government being rather liberal and permissive compared to many of the other countries of the Eastern bloc (Yugoslavia of course being free of Soviet domination) and short animation being promoted by the state, with the filmmakers given a good degree of autonomy.

[@sticlavoda5632]

I feel like Anca Damian shows potential for Romania.

[@Drakovenator]

Interesting very interesting well i guess it means that the next video that you will upload is about the Iranian New Wave if i’m correct after you finish that you will probably take a 1 month break and after that you will probably do videos about The Cinema Of Greece, Satyajit Ray, The Cinema Of India and The Cinema Of The Canadian Province Of Quebec only if you are interested in making those of course. Oh and don’t worry about me i’m a very patient person.

[@alexandru.pavalache]

❤

[@thatblenderguy7566]

Do Polish Animation Next Please Then Norwegian Please And Then Swedish And French.

[@Gilotopia]

Is the Gopo full filmography available anywhere online?

[@kubricklynch]

No, I don't think so. But a lot of his films are on youtube or vk.com

[@cosmin2528]

❤❤❤

[@superdrinkerb6432]

Pic si Poc...Aventuri submarine

[@thecyberdork776]

👍