Short film

Wild Animals of the World
2004 · 19 min
A quiet, sombre short about children carrying loss, watched with the patient tenderness of a small postwar fable.
- Directed by
- Lyudmila Dubrovskaya
- Genres
- Family
- Starring
- Maikl Brezanskiy, Sergey Tishkovskiy, Polina Kachan
- Overview
- Nine-year-old Yurik is living with relatives after his mother died and his father went missing. His friend, Zayats, is one of the few who survived the bombing of Minsk and now understands what things and animals think. One day, the "Wild Animals of the World" exhibition comes to town, and the boys are eager to attend, but they need money to get there.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, friendship, survival, family
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Lyudmila Dubrovskaya
- Genres
- Family
- Starring
- Maikl Brezanskiy, Sergey Tishkovskiy, Polina Kachan





