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Glorious Mother

Glorious Mother

★ 6,0 /10 (1 Votes)
1996 ES 7 min

Overview

The mother and housewife of our time becomes involved in the Flag War.

Release date

01/01/1996

Votes

1

Popularity

0.9

Status

Released

Original title

Mater gloriosa

Language

ES

Runtime

7 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-05-14

⭐ 6

It might have been more predictable for there to have been a "Father Time" presiding over this potted history of mankind's obsession with fighting/killing each other, but in this simple but quite effective animation it's more like "Mother Time" who watches as a two-tone, but colourless, flag becomes a symbol of pride, patriotism, violence and destruction. It's told from the perspective of an impressionable young child who vacillates between enthusiasm for and revulsion of what is presented over the generations of human militarism and it's worth a few minutes as a quickly-paced description of m…

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