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

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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