Apel (Polish pronunciation: [ˈa.pɛl], variously translated as The Appeal and The Roll-Call) is a 1970 black-and-white cutout animated short film by Ryszard Czekała [pl].

[1] The film is about World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland: during the morning roll call, a group of concentration camp prisoners are tormented by an SS officer who orders them to perform gymnastic exercises.

Apel was written and directed by Ryszard Czekała and was made using black-and-white cutout animation.

It was produced by the Krakow Branch of Studio Miniatur Filmowych [pl] in Warsaw, with Magda Barycz serving as production manager.

[5][1] Apel has been called "the first animated film in Eastern Europe to directly depict the concentration camps".

[3] Apel was praised in Poland, with film critic Jerzy Giżycki [pl] favorably comparing it to The Last Stage (1947) and Passenger (1963).