Balance

Directed by Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein · 1989

A handful of identical men share a floating platform that tilts with every step, staying level only by moving in careful unison, until one of them fishes up a mysterious box.

An Oscar-winning stop-motion parable that turns a simple balancing act into a gripping, wordless study of greed.

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of

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