Last Year's Snow Was Falling

Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983) is a short Soviet plasticine animated film you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Alexander Tatarsky, it runs twenty minutes. That's all it needs.

A wife sends her husband to the woods to bring home a New Year tree. Simple enough — except the plasticine man has a peculiar talent for losing the plot entirely. Tatarsky built the world from drawings submitted by children in Kyiv, and the film has that quality: handmade, slightly uneven, alive in a way slicker animation never quite achieves. Watch Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983) online on iFILM.