The Hand

About The Hand

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant.

Jiří Trnka's The Hand is a 1965 animation horror film. At 18 minutes long, it arrived in October 1965.

The film is filed under stop motion, home invasion, surreal, and destruction.

Ladislav Fialka plays The Hand. The screenplay is by Jiří Trnka. It streams on Klassiki in the United States.

Dimensions of Dialogue, The Pied Piper, and A Christmas Dream make useful companions to The Hand, all filed under czech animation, czech horror, and czech surrealism. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 85 votes.