• Warning: Spoilers
    "Strekoza i muravey" or "The Grasshopper and the Ant" is a 5-minute black-and-white short film from 1913, so this one is already easily over 100 years old. The writer and director here is Wladyslaw Starewicz and he gives us his take on a famous fable in this very short animated movie. It is warm outside and the ant works hard to make sure she is fine during summer. The grasshopper does not really understand it and maybe even mocks her while he keeps playing music. But music won't keep you warm and he has to learn it the hard way. There are more adaptations of this story out there and this one here is possibly my least favorite. Film just wasn't ready for this tale in the 1910s. We don't hear the grasshopper's music, we don't see the green summer area where the two are living, we don't see the white cold winter. This story badly needed sound and colors. I cannot recommend the watch. Thumbs down and as Starewicz made films for many decades afterward, he should have waited with this one for a while until the medium film was ready for it.