The Bread's Light

The Bread's Light (1983) is a short animated film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Vladimir Samsonov compresses an entire parable about the grain-grower's labour into ten near-wordless minutes, where the drawing and the music carry everything.

There is no plot in the usual sense. There is an image: the soil, the grain, the hands that bring in the harvest. The animation moves to a musical score, more a short visual poem about bread and the people who grow it than a story with dialogue. A Soviet hand-drawn short for anyone who values quiet, unhurried auteur animation and doesn't mind ten minutes without a single line of speech. Stream The Bread's Light online on iFILM.