Surviving Life is the eye-popping new feature film from internationally acclaimed director and animation godfather, Jan Švankmajer (Alice, Faust).
Using a mix of cutout animation from photographs and live-action segments, Surviving Life brings with it another extraordinary offering from Švankmajer’s unique and surreal vision, told through the darkly humorous story of a married man who lives adouble life in his dreams.
Eugene leads a double life – one real, the other in his dreams. In real life he has a wifecalled Milada; in his dreams he has a young girlfriend called Eugenia. Sensing that these dreams have some deeper meaning, he goes to see a psychoanalyst, Dr. Holubova, who interprets them for him, with the help of some argumentative psychoanalytical griping from the animated heads of Freud and Jung.