The Story of a Crime (1962)
- Original title
- История одного преступления
- Directed by
- Fyodor Khitruk
- Genre
- animation
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 20 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man is driven to commit a crime by the noise and chaos of city life. The film shows his frustrations through a mix of traditional and cutout animation.
satiricalwhimsicaldarkly comicinventivemelancholicexperimentalabsurdthought-provoking
What happens
The Story of a Crime (Russian: История одного преступления, translit. Istoriya odnogo prestupleniya) is a 1962 Soviet animated Short film directed by Fyodor Khitruk and based on a screenplay by Michael Volpin. It was produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The score is by Andrey Babaev, with sound editing by George Martynuk. It was the first film by Khitruk, whose role in the history of Russian animation led him to be recognized as a People's Artist of the USSR and a Meritorious Artist, and to receive the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". The film is a hybrid of Traditional animation and Cutout animation (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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