The Undertaker

Cut-out animation – The Undertaker

An episode from the series Red Iron Road

Synopsis

Moscow, 1830.  Adrian, a lanky and morose Undertaker is surrounded by disease, poverty and injustice. Every time something remotely hopeful happens to him, it immediately fades away and decays.  Insulating himself from the outer world Adrian finds escape in his beloved vocation: taking care of the dead. Step by step, the Undertaker becomes something he has been very close to his entire life – Death.

Based on the short story “The Undertaker” by Aleksander Pushkin, 1831.

Director

Sergei Kibus

Technique

cut-out animation

Year of production

2022

Duration

13 min

Subscriber

Lakeside Animation (Canada)