The Guardian Angel

The Guardian Angel (1989) is a fantasy animated short by Vladimir Petkevich that you can watch online on iFILM. Its hero is an angel whose well-meaning attempts to help people keep backfiring into bigger and bigger disasters.

The harder he tries to save the day, the louder the catastrophe — a wry little parable about good intentions packed into nine minutes. Nothing is spelled out: the funny and the sad sit side by side, and the ending earns a smile and a sigh at once. An odd, charming find for fans of offbeat Soviet animation. Stream The Guardian Angel online on iFILM.