Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi

19221922
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9m

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Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi (1922)

Animation Short Comedy

The frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.The frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.The frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.

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7.1/10

592

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128,080

65,915

Director
- Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writer
- Wladyslaw Starewicz

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This animated short is based on one of Aesop's fables.

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Featured in Basquiat (1996)

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10/10

stork-raving mad

After Władysław Starewicz fled revolutionary Russia, he moved to France, where he continued to make cartoons. One was "Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi" ("The Frogs Who Wanted a King" in English). This one features frogs who have a democracy but want a king. Jupiter first sends them a tree, but later sends the poor suckers a stork! Oh, the humanity!

One of the things that these sorts of cartoons make clear is that cartoons don't have to be "cute" stories for children. Lots of the early cartoons were downright bizarre (it was Walt Disney who decided that cartoons should be for the tykes). In the meantime, this is a pretty fun cartoon. Check it out.

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