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Harvie Krumpet is an Australian claymation, made in St Kilda, Melbourne by Adam Elliot (Melodrama Pictures). This short (23 min) film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003, in addition to numerous festival awards and the 2003 Australian Film Institute Best Short Animation award.

Synopsis

The story revolves around the life of Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, born in Poland in 1921. At the outbreak of World War II he comes to Spotswood in Australia as a refugee, and changes his name to Harvie Krumpet. Despite a life filled with bad luck - injuries, accidents, illnesses (including Tourette's Syndrome) - Harvie remains ever optimistic, living out his own eccentric way of life, marrying a nurse he meets in hospital and raising an adoptive daughter, who is a Thalidomide baby. Throughout his disaster-ridden life, people around him come and go, but right to the end Harvie delights in the simple pleasure of life.

That this film is a series of clay figures, not a computer generated animation makes it even more powerful. The naïve simplicity of Harvie is an extended metaphor for all that youth values in life - a clear sense of values and strength of family.

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