1938 Soviet animation where a little guy with magic shoes outruns reality itself.
Direction
Packs a full novel's worth of social satire into thirteen unhinged minutes.
Director
Olga Khodatayeva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Khodatayeva was one of the first female animation directors in the USSR, adapting German fairy tales with distinctly Soviet class consciousness.
The film's jerky, hallucinatory style influenced later Eastern European animators who deliberately rejected Disney's 'illusion of life' smoothness.
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