A passenger steps off his train during a short stop in a small town called Vernanda in order to buy a loaf of bread. However, the train departs early and the passenger is left to deal with a bread-shaped bomb, strangely behaving townsfolk and an ominous laughter that follows him wherever he goes.
Direction
Baskin weaponizes dead air and empty streets.
Sound
That laughter will haunt your grocery runs.
Director
Roman Baskin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in late Soviet Estonia, it channels the era's suffocating bureaucracy where citizens were trapped by systems they couldn't comprehend or escape.
Jüri Järvet, who plays a townsman, was Estonia's most celebrated actor—imagine Laurence Olivier doing a bread horror short.
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