How Mice Buried a Cat

How Mice Buried a Cat (1969) is a short animated film by director Mikhail Chiaureli that you can watch online on iFILM. Fifteen minutes, drawn frame by frame, built on an old folk rhyme.

A cat lies sprawled across the street, lost in his own daydreams. Three mice scurry out of their hole and start taunting him out in the open — tugging his tail, darting around his paws. The cat barely stirs. Whether that little gang has pushed its luck too far, the picture answers without a single line of dialogue.

This is Soviet-era Georgian hand-drawn animation, tight and a touch sly in tone rather than purely childish. A good pick for anyone who enjoys vintage studio shorts and stories told purely through movement. Stream How Mice Buried a Cat (1969) online on iFILM.