Laokoon

Animation / Short / Sci-fi
Czechoslovakia, 1970, 11 min

Directed by:

Václav Mergl

Screenplay:

Václav Mergl

Cinematography:

Vladimír Malík

Composer:

Jiří Kolafa
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A sci-fi about a group of cosmonauts who land on a distant planet. There they find strange eggs that hide in their shells what the cosmonauts longed for -- enormous wealth. While they are getting ready to take off one egg captures a cosmonaut who suffocates in its tentacles just like Laokoon was killed by snakes in the old Greek myth. The spaceship takes off for the earth and above the cosmonauts, tentacles break their way through the eggs'shells. (official distributor synopsis)

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