A Favour

A gentle, wry animated fable that turns a simple errand into a chain of favours, watching with quiet amusement as each request snowballs.

Directed by

Oleksandr Viken

Genres

Animation

Starring

Nadiia Kondratovska, Liudmyla Tomashevska, Olena Huzeyeva

Overview

Mistress Hen has a lot of worries every day. She needs to feed the chickens, take them to kindergarten, clean, iron, and prepare dinner. But how to cook something without salt? Hen goes to the neighbor Goose to borrow salt, but she asks to do her a favour. A simple request triggers a whole cascade of favours that must be arranged to get...salt. The cartoon satirically mirrors the rampant barter and blat in the poor Soviet society of the late "stagnation" era.

How it feels

Satirical, whimsical, warm and cynical. Measured and easy to follow.

About

Class, family, work, power

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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