1978 · animation · family · short
Prostokvashino
Directed by Vladimir Popov17m1978
Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.
Our read: Prostokvashino (1978) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · family · short entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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