The Appeal

It is one of the most stirring animated films in the history of animation In a simple but powerful way Czekala presents a horror that happened in concentration camps prisoners dread humiliation and lost humanity The everyday rollcall ends tragically because of prisoners insubordination in this black and white film The RollCall crossed borders of what can be presented or not in animation It is sometimes interpreted as a response to the trend of allegorical and philosophical films that dominated in Polish animation in 1960s