Hen, His Wife

May 01, 1990 13m

5.7

25 votes

Synopsis

Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.

Title	Hen, His Wife
Companies	Studio "Pilot"
Countries	Soviet Union
Keywords	chicken, surreal, dream sequence, marital crisis, short film, apartment, husband wife conflict, soviet, preserved film