The Street
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Street |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 11 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Caroline Leaf |
| script | Mordecai Richler |
| production |
Guy Glover Wolf Koenig for National Film Board of Canada |
The Street is a 1976 Canadian oil-on-glass animation short film directed by Caroline Leaf .
action
A boy tells how his grandmother was dying. The doctor Dr. Katzman visits the family and finds that the grandmother will die in the next few days. The boy, who has to visit his grandmother in her room every day and kiss her goodbye before he goes to school, sees her passing with anticipation, as he has been promised her room as a future children's room. So far he has had to share a room with his older sister.
However, the grandmother is still alive two years later. At some point the mother collapses under the workload - housekeeping and care of the mother - and has to stay in bed for two weeks. During that time, the father decides that the grandmother should be brought to a Jewish retirement home. The boy hopes to be able to move into his new room, but when he asks his father about this, he just calls him a loudmouth. The mother has recovered and is visiting the grandmother in the old people's home. She arranges for her to be brought back to the family's apartment immediately, which the father already saw coming. One day the boy sees a crowd on the street in front of the house - the grandmother has died and the relatives and the rabbi have already arrived. In the evening the boy's sister realizes that they will probably sleep in the same room for the last time, but the boy is no longer attracted to the idea of sleeping in the bed in which his grandmother died. Both children turn off the light. In the dark the sister now imitates the ghost of the grandmother, who asks who is sleeping in her bed.
production
The Street is based on the short story of the same name by Mordecai Richler, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The film was created in oil-on-glass animation .
Awards
The Street was nominated in 1977 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short ", but could not prevail against Leisure .
In 1976, Leaf received the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. At the Genie Awards she won the Genie, then still called Etrog, for the best animated film and also received the Wendy Michener Award.
In 1977 he won the Silver Dragon at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy .
Web links
- The Street in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Street on bcdb.com