A dog wants to buy a new hat from his local tailor (who is a cat). A story about why cats and dogs dosen't like each other.
Score
Playful orchestral cues punctuating every comedic beat.
Writing
Economical origin story packing centuries of rivalry into one transaction.
Director
Lev Atamanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lev Atamanov was a pillar of Soviet Soyuzmultfilm, the studio behind iconic Eastern Bloc animation that rarely crossed to Western audiences during the Cold War.
The film adapts a Sacha Guitry one-act play, transplanting French boulevard comedy into folkloric animal allegory—a weirdly perfect Soviet pastime.
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