The cow (short film)

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Movie
German title The cow
Original title Корова
Country of production Soviet Union
Publishing year 1989
length 10 mins
Rod
Director Alexander Petrov
script Alexander Petrov
production Alexander Petrov
for Sverdlovsk Film Studio

The Cow is a 1989 Soviet oil-on-glass animation short film directed by Alexander Petrov .

action

The boy fetches the father from the railroad tracks not far from the house and takes him to the family stable: the only cow owned by the family has given birth to a young. Over time, the little animal becomes a young bull and the father sells him. The cow cannot get over the loss of the child. She becomes stubborn, no longer pulls the plow and when the boy hugs her comfortingly, she pulls herself free from the rope and breaks away. The family searches in vain for the animal.

The boy falls asleep in the barn in the evening and dreams of the cow that carries him amicably on its horns and is later run over by the plow. In fact, a train stopped on the tracks not far from the house: the cow was run over by the train. The boy reports that the family ate the meat of the cow, so that she gave everything to the family - her young, meat, offal, leather. He never forgot the cow.

production

The cow is based on a story by Andrei Platonow . It was Alexander Petrov's film debut. Like many later animated films by Petrov, the cow was animated with lavish oil painting on glass.

Awards

At the 1990 Berlinale , Die Kuh received honorable recognition in the Best Animated Short Film category and won the OIAF Award for best film debut at the Ottawa International Animation Festival . The film won the Grand Prix at the Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival .

The cow was nominated in 1990 for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ”, but could not prevail against Balance .

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