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The Toll Collector (S)

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Original title: The Toll Collector
Year: 2003
Running time: 10 min.
Country: Czech Republic
Director: Rachel Johnson
Screenwriter: Rachel Johnson
Cast: Animation
Music: Patrick Kirst
Cinematography: Animation, Vladimír Malík
Producer: Co-production Czech Republic-United States;
Jiri Trnka Studio, Kent Richards Pictures. Distributor: The Animation Show of Shows
Genre: Animation. Drama | Stop Motion. Short Film (Animated)
Synopsis: 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?

Awards: 2003: Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Berlin Bear (Best Short Film)

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The Toll Collector (S)

2003

Rachel Johnson

5.5

(98)