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The Bath House

1962 · 53 min

A dry, playful Soviet satire that turns bureaucratic foot-dragging into a wry, talky cartoon fable about invention.

Directed by
Sergei Yutkevich, Anatoliy Karanovich
Genres
Animation
Starring
Arkadiy Raykin, Yekaterina Rajkina
Overview
Inventor Chudakov builds a time machine. All that remains is to interest the technical innovation officials and receive authorization to continue the experiment. And it turns out that's the hardest part! The end point in this inventor's struggle will only be set by a "phosphoric woman" arriving from a wonderful future...

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Sergei Yutkevich, Anatoliy Karanovich
Genres
Animation
Starring
Arkadiy Raykin, Yekaterina Rajkina
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • technology
  • politics
  • ambition
  • media
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism4
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight3

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Genres
animation
Directed by
Sergei Yutkevich, Anatoliy Karanovich
Written by
Anatoliy Karanovich, Sergei Yutkevich
Starring
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Music
Rodion Shchedrin
Cinematography
Mikhail Kamenetskiy, Nikolay Grinberg
Runtime
53 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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