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A Plasticine Crow

1981 · 9 min

A playful, hand-molded burst of claymation silliness that skips along with catchy rhymes and a wink at its own making.

Directed by: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Genres: Animation
Starring: Leonid Bronevoy, Alexandr Levenbuk, Lev Shimelov

Overview: Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".

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Directed by: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Genres: Animation
Starring: Leonid Bronevoy, Alexandr Levenbuk, Lev Shimelov

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Tone: whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
deception
identity
media
Places: None
Era: timeless
Audience: family
Form: animated
anthology
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	7
Realism	2
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	2
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	2

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Written by: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Starring: Leonid Bronevoy, Alexandr Levenbuk, Lev Shimelov, Grigoriy Gladkov, Alyosha Pavlov
Cinematography: Ernst Gaman
Runtime: 9 min
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian

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