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This 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.
A few years before Kubrick in "2001", although in a more farcical way, Ion Popescu-Gopo shows the evolution of a strange creature named man from the time he started to rub flint stones to nowadays when he has managed to split the atoms.
The little man learns that the Earth is in mortal danger due to pollution.
Dialogue between a man from Earth and an alien about the advantages and darker sides of earthly civilization.
One of the primitive people discovered an apple tree but there is a condition: he can pluck apples from it, but only keep every third.
The little man discovers oil and invents all kinds of machines, including a robot woman, to satisfy his consumer needs.
An anthology made up of numerous short films featuring Gopo's Little Man.
A series of short sketches with Gopo's Little Man about sports.
