Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983)

Original title

Падал прошлогодний снег

Directed by

Alexander Tatarsky

Genre

satire, cinematic fairy tale

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

20 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 91 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A clay-animated film from 1983 that uses absurd humor. It loosely adapts folk fairy tales and follows a hapless peasant character. The story is full of bizarre situations and memorable one-liners.

absurdwhimsicaldarkly comicplayfulquirkyfolkloricsatiricalfast-paced

What happens

Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Russian: Падал прошлогодний снег; translit. Padal proshlogodniy sneg) is a 1983 Soviet clay-animated film directed by Alexander Tatarsky (T/O Ekran studio). The film reached a cult status after its first appearance on Central TV. The aphoristic remarks of the characters, full of absurd humor, turned into colloquial proverbs. For this work Tatarsky received the Silver Cooker award at the 1983 Varna International Film Festival. Loosely based on some folk fairy tales. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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