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The Toll Collector

Feb 8, 2003
0h 10m
★ 4.8

Overview

A parable about a thwarted dream. A narrator tells us about a young woman who wants, more than anything, to be a ballerina. Thanks to animation, we see the problem: her legs make up about three-quarters of her height. She sees the impossibility of her dream and moves to a house on an isolated hill where she lives by herself, lonely, practicing her art, and then, in near despair, taking up knitting. Madness seems close at hand, but is there anything that can bring hope and pull her from her solitary, circumscribed life?

Genres

Drama
Animation

Production Companies

Kent Richards Pictures
Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky

Cast

Rachel Johnson

Narrator

Rachel Johnson

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