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Balance

1989 German animated film
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Summary

Balance is an animated short film[1]. Balance draws 253 Wikipedia views per month (animated short film category, ranking #162 of 1,467).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3]
  • Instance of: short film[4]
  • Director: Christoph Lauenstein[5], Wolfgang Lauenstein[6]
  • Screenwriter: Christoph Lauenstein[7]
  • Genre: silent film[8], drama film[9]
  • Director of photography: Christoph Lauenstein[10]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[11]
  • Color: color[12]
  • Country of origin: Germany[13], West Germany[14]
  • Publication date: May 25, 1989[15]
  • Distributed by: Netflix[16]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[17]
  • Title: Balance[18]
  • FSK film rating: FSK 6[19]
  • Duration: 7 minutes[20]
  • Fabrication method: puppetoon animation[21]
  • P14449: 72104[22]

Why It Matters

Balance has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Balance is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

FAQs

What awards did Balance receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3].

Related Entities

Germany Netflix West Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . filmportal.de. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . filmportal.de. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6h ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Academy awards database film id → 2496
    Sitelink count → 12
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'fr', 'gl', 'hu', 'hy', 'ko', 'nl', 'pt', 'ru', 'ur', 'uz']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Academy awards database film id: 2496, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/62730296|Balance (#62730296)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/1999|Academy Awards D"
  2. 7w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film id → 48993
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Filmová databáze film id: 48993, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269265|batch #269265]]"
  3. 15w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fabrication method → puppetoon animation
    Aliases → —
    P14449 → 72104
    Publication date → +1989-05-25T00:00:00Z
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/38225|batch #38225]]: MovieLens IDs (part 1)"
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