Seryi Volk & Krasnaya Shapochka (1991)

Original title

Серый волк энд Красная шапочка

Directed by

Garri Bardin

Genre

fairy tale, musical play, fantasy film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

27 min

Rated

12+

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This claymation film retells the Little Red Riding Hood story as a political parody. It uses fairy tale characters to comment on the breakup of the Soviet Union.

whimsicalsatiricalplayfulnostalgichumorousdarkly comicoffbeat

What happens

Seryi Volk & Krasnaya Shapochka, (Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood / Серый Волк энд Красная Шапочка) is a claymation film, produced in the USSR by Garri Bardin in 1990, a year before the USSR actually did break up. The film is considered a parody of the demise of the USSR blended into the children's story of "Little Red Riding Hood". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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