The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

Original title

Старик и море

Directed by

Aleksandr Petrov

Genre

drama film

Country

Russia, Japan, Canada

Runtime

20 min

Rated

0+

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 169 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An old fisherman in Cuba struggles to haul in a giant marlin he hooked far out at sea. Alone on his small boat, he fights the fish and then the sharks that come to take it.

painterlymeditativeisolatedmelancholicserenevisually lushslow-burnquiet

What happens

The Old Man and the Sea (Russian: Старик и море) is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Russian, Canadian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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