Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

May 5, 2023

0h 58m

★ 10.0

Overview

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work in the studio which was founded in the Soviet era and has survived heavy censorship and global competition.

Genres

Documentary

Animation

Production Companies

Luckyday Pictures

Viddle

Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion Trailers

Cast

Narrator

Des McAleer

Narrator (Swedish version)

Christian Fex

Self

Riho Unt

Self

Mait Laas

Self

Ragnar Neljandi

Self

Heigo Eeriksoo

Self

Andres Mänd

Self

Märt Kivi

Self

Chris Robinson

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