A short cartoon about real estate development, poverty, Christmas, suicide, and boxing. Black and white, silent (though with music and some sound effects). Could almost have been directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano (the "patriarch of Soviet animation") in the 1930s.
But it's from 2004. And it assimilates itself so much into the visuals of the 1930s that technically I might call it almost perfect (and gave it 9/10, which is about the maximum I hand out for the best films I know, because nobody is perfect...).
If you can deal with the topics mentioned above, watch or get this little film (for instance from archive.org). It will take 5 minutes, 37 seconds of your time. For me, it was very well worth them. Thinking about it takes longer.
But it's from 2004. And it assimilates itself so much into the visuals of the 1930s that technically I might call it almost perfect (and gave it 9/10, which is about the maximum I hand out for the best films I know, because nobody is perfect...).
If you can deal with the topics mentioned above, watch or get this little film (for instance from archive.org). It will take 5 minutes, 37 seconds of your time. For me, it was very well worth them. Thinking about it takes longer.