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Music director
  
Normand Roger

Duration
  

Country
  
Canada

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Animation, Short, Comedy

Screenplay
  
John Lazarus

Writer
  
John Lazarus

Language
  
English

Village of Idiots movie poster

Director
  
Eugene Fedorenko and Rose Newlove

Release date
  
1999

Directors
  
Rose Newlove, Eugene Fedorenko

Cast
  
Nicholas Rice, Jack Newman

Similar movies
  
Every Child (1979), When the Day Breaks (1999), The Big Snit (1985), Lost in the Barrens (1990), Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998)

Tagline
  
“Outsiders call Chelm the village of idiots,” Shmendrick explains, “but our rabbi said we were a city of natural geniuses, with our own way of figuring things out.”

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Village of Idiots is a short animated comedy based on the classic humorous Jewish folk tales of Chełm directed and animated by Eugene Fedorenko and Rose Newlove, written by John Lazarus, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Fedorenko is the Academy Award-winning animator of the 1979 NFB short Every Child.

Contents

Village of idiots animation and cartoon videos


Summary

“Outsiders call Chelm the village of idiots," Shmendrick explains, "but our rabbi said we were a city of natural geniuses, with our own way of figuring things out.”

With muted, mesmerizing illustrations and heavy accordion-based music, the film follows Shmendrick as he sets out on a journey away from home for the first time. But along his journey from Chełm to Warsaw, he comes upon a city that is eerily similar to the one he left behind. The rest of us might think Shmendrik just took a wrong turn and ended up back home, but for Shmendrik, this discovery sheds light on holy teachings: “The Talmud tells us that the world everywhere is the same," he recalls.

Awards

Village of Idiots has won eight awards:

  • Best Animated Short film at the Genie Awards
  • Two directing awards at the Montreal World Film Festival
  • Won Animation at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
  • Centaur Award at the St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival
  • Best Animated Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Won an award from the Writers Guild of Canada
  • Second prize at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films
  • It was also included in the Animation show of shows.

    References

    Village of Idiots Wikipedia
    Village of Idiots IMDb Village of Idiots themoviedb.org