A Cossack gambles with the devil for a horse. Soviet animation hits different.
A Cossack wandered in search of a better life, and his lifelong dream was a fast and beautiful horse. He had to meet him on the way a fortune-teller and a swamp waterman, which traded a horseshoe to a bunch of red peppers with the Cossack; and he had to beat the devil in cards and eventually find peace of mind in the family life with a beautiful Ukrainian girl.
Direction
Dakhno crams an epic journey into ten delirious minutes.
Director
Volodymyr Dakhno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dakhno helped define Ukrainian Soviet animation by rejecting Russian realism for bold national folk aesthetics.
This was part of Dakhno's Cossack trilogy; he later directed the iconic 'Cossacks' series still beloved in Ukraine.
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