Andrey KHRZHANOVSKY
Андрей ХРЖАНОВСКИЙ
Andreï KHRJANOVSKI
USSR, 1971, 5mn 
Colour, animation
The Wardrobe
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Шкаф

 

 L'Armoire

 Shkaf

Other titles : Калейдоскоп-71 (вып.2). Шкаф
 
Directed by : Andrey KHRZHANOVSKY (Андрей ХРЖАНОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Rosa KHUSNUTDINOVA (Роза ХУСНУТДИНОВА)
Production design : Valery UGAROV (Валерий УГАРОВ)
Music : Alfred SHNITKE (Альфред ШНИТКЕ)
Sound : Boris FILCHIKOV (Борис ФИЛЬЧИКОВ)
Production : Soyuzmultfilm
 

Plot synopsis
For adults. It is a parable about the person who was so afraid of life that he put himself voluntarily in a huge wardrobe (a variation of a theme of "the wise gudgeon"). The second plot - "Rain" (sm). There are three plots: about collective force, about fashion pursuit and about the barbarous attitude to the nature.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Путешествия в пространстве культуры. Наталья Кривуля о методе Хржановского, Natalya KRIVULYA, chapaev.media, 2009
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991), kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- BCF. The Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- International Leipzig Festival for documentary and animated film, Leipzig (Germany), 2009

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