After last year’s intoxicating performance, the International Storytelling Festival Amsterdam returns to KLIK with a compelling new show: A live-narrated screening of The Idea (L'Idée), the 1932 animated film by Berthold Bartosch that charts a woman’s radical idea to go naked and the revolution it inspires.

Accompanying the original film with all-new narration, Sahand Sahebdivani (Dutch Storyteller of the Year 2014) and musician Anastasis Sarakatsanos will put this classic film in a whole new perspective.

This program is presented in collaboration with International Storytelling Festival Amsterdam.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

The Idea

• Berthold Bartosch
• France, 1932
• 25 min.

The Idea (L'Idée) is a 1932 animated film by Bohemian filmmaker Berthold Bartosch (1893--1968), based on the 1920 wordless novel of the same name by Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889--1972). The film stars a naked woman, representing a thinker's idea; as she goes out into the world, the frightened authorities unsuccessfully try to cover up her nudity. A working class man who stands up for her is executed, and a workers' revolution she inspires is violently suppressed by capitalism, the state and the church.