![]() ![]() I think it ends up as a sort of satire of someone who starts working for some organization (perhaps a "nonprofit" or a "think tank"), which they help make enormously influential, and then this entity (represented by a crocodile in the film) no longer needs them and "spits them out", leaving them forever-changed and rather pathetic. Much of what is said in the film is conveyed with visual metaphors, and after the 7-minute mark Titov decisively charts his own path, going past the timeline of the original text (which originally finished kind-of in mid-note, so to speak, with the fates of the characters unresolved) to provide his own version of how the story could end (quite a valid one I think, but you be the judge). Overall, the screenplay is quite original - Titov did a lot of work on it and I think he did his research and chose what to include quite deliberately. The director, Mihail Titov, made a number of interesting animated films in the Perestroika era, most of them literary adaptations and increasingly avant-garde. ![]() It is based on both the story, as well as Dostoyevsky's unused ideas for the story, including the lyrics of the song (see links in comment I will post below) ![]() The Crocodile / Крокодил (1991) (with English/Russian/Czech subtitles) Hi everyone, I thought some people here might be interested in this rather one-of-a-kind adaptation of the 1856 satirical story. ![]()
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