V FESTIVAL OF FILM AND URBANISM «86»

MAY 9 - MAY 13 / 2018, SLAVUTYCH

ANIMAL LANGUAGE

Ukrainian SSR, 1967, 62’

Director: Feliks Soboliev

Production: Kyivnaukfilm

 

Selections and awards: Main Prize at the 1969 Leipzig International Film Festival

 

Kingdom of animals is an unknown territory. We are like foreigners in here. We don’t understand the language of this country. They say, once lived a person who could talk to the animals, King Solomon. All peoples have fairytales with animals speaking with each other and with humans. In amazement, we’re looking at the world which considered long discovered. Animal language. It’s not human language, but special, sometimes completely unexpected ways of communication between animals…