''Surogat'' (known in English as ''Ersatz'' and ''The Substitute'') is a 1961 Yugoslav short

animated film Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

by Croatian director

Dušan Vukotić Dušan Vukotić (7 February 1927 – 8 July 1998) was a Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist, author and director of animated films of Montenegrin descent. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films. Biography Vukotić w ...

, produced by

Zagreb Film Zagreb Film is a Croatian film company principally known for its animation studio. From Zagreb, it was founded in 1953. They have produced hundreds of animated films, as well as documentaries, television commercials, educational films and several f ...

, then a Yugoslav film production company. The film is also known by several other names in other languages: ''Cyррогат'', ''Der Ersatz'', ''Le Succēdanē'' and ''Surrogatto''.

Plot

A man takes a trip to the beach and every object he brings with him, no matter how unlikely, is inflatable.

Accolades

The film won an

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for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

Legacy

The

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preserved ''Ersatz'' in 2012.

References

External links

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''Surogat'' on YouTube
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