| Tango | |
| Director: | Zbigniew Rybczyński |
| Producer: | Zygmunt Smyczek |
| Music: | Janusz Hajdun |
| Cinematography: | Zbigniew Rybczyński |
| Editing: | Barbara Sarnocinska |
| Studio: | Film Polski Studio Se-Ma-For[1] |
| Runtime: | 8 minutes |
| Country: | Poland |
Tango is a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński.[2] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 55th Academy Awards.[3] It required several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer and sixteen hours a day over seven months to make the short.[4]
The film depicts an initially empty room. A ball bounces in through the window, and a boy enters to retrieve it and leaves. This series of actions repeats over and over, gradually accompanied by more and more repeating paths of different people through the room. The film ends with the people eventually leaving the room and the boy throws the ball through the window one last time, landing near an old woman lying down. She then gets up, picks up the ball and leaves through the door near her.