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Hen, His Wife(1990)
Status: Released
Date: 1990-05-01
57%
25 Votes
Time: 0h 13m
Overview:
Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.
Languages: Russian.
Countries:
Soviet Union
ProductionCompanies:
Studio "Pilot"
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