The Old Man and the Bird

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The Old Man and the Bird (2015)

Directed by Dennis Stein-Schomburg

Animation · 7m

Snowflakes drift through the forest. An old man, as old as the hills, lives alone in a remote hut. The winter is so cold that he can barely move his limbs. When a robin flies against his window and falls to the ground the old man first has to pause for thought. Then he pushes open the heavy front door and stomps outside to help the bird. Out in the deep snow his strength begins to fail him. But no sooner does he take the tender creature in his hands than a change comes over him. Life radiates in luminous colours and returns to the old man's hut. As it used to. Or is this just one last memory? An inventively animated rumination on love, on bidding farewell and the cycle of life.

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Crew

Director
Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Writer
Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Director of Photography
Christoph Neugebauer
Editor
Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Producer
Roland Fischer

Details

Release date
2015-02-10
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
Germany
Production
Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion Memmingen