Oscar® Nominee, Best Short Film (Animated), 1999 Imagine that your grandmother used to iron the king’s shirts! And imagine that when the king has to flee invading Nazis, your grandmother’s aptitude with apparel plays a key role in the resistance! This NFB animated short from Oscar®-winning animator Torill Kove’s is a surprising and whimsical recounting of an unlikely career in service of an unusual monarch. Directed by Torill Kove - 1999 | 10 min A National Film Board of Canada and Studio Magica co-production Watch more free films on NFB.ca → http://bit.ly/YThpNFB Subscribe to our newsletter → http://bit.ly/NFBnewsletter Follow us on Facebook → http://bit.ly/ytfbNFB Follow us on Instagram → http://bit.ly/2FdmRol Follow us on Twitter → http://bit.ly/yttwNFB Download our free iOS Apps → http://apple.co/2dbva4h Download our free Android Apps → http://bit.ly/2dbvHmO
There's a great National Film Board short called "My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts," featuring Norwegian laundresses purposely, relentlessly ruining Nazi uniforms during the WWII occupation. This is resistance! This counts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LfJ...
Delightful animated story about resistance, ironing shirts, in WW2 occupied Norway. Thanks @jameswallis.bsky.social for sharing. youtu.be/5LfJrv1_sZI?... #Norway #WW2
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