Short film

The Signature Is Illegible
1954 · 18 min
A brisk, gently barbed cartoon where bureaucratic foolishness plays out in bright, simple animal antics.
- Directed by
- Aleksandr Ivanov
- Genres
- Animation
- Tagline
- Mole, director of an egg incubator, hires Rat as an employee, who soon begins to steal and muddy the waters.
- Overview
- Mole, director of an egg incubator, hires Rat as an employee, who soon begins to steal and muddy the waters. A social satire about poorly-managed organizations, based on caricatures by Boris Yefimov.
- How it feels
- Satirical, light, whimsical and cynical. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Corruption, work, betrayal, greed
- 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
- Aleksandr Ivanov
- Genres
- Animation



