Banquet

Original title: Banket

1987
10m

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A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.

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7.6/10

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Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Woman with glasses
(voice)
(as E. Vasileva)

Marina Neyolova

Laughing Woman
(voice)
(as M. Neyolova)

Natalya Tenyakova

Vasiliy Petrovich's Wife
(voice)
(as N. Tenyakova)

Aleksey Borzunov

Ulcer
(voice)
(as A. Borzunov)

Georgiy Burkov

Vasiliy Petrovich
(voice)
(as G. Burkov)

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

A man saying 'Ah, damn!'
(voice)
(as A. Dzhigarkhanyan)

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

A man saying 'We are sitting well!'
(voice)
(as V. Nevinnyy)

Boris Novikov

Toastmaster
(voice)
(as B. Novikov)

Director
- Garri Bardin
Writer
- Garri Bardin
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Trivia
At the beginning of the cartoon and when the table is laid, sounds the melody of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from the ballet "Sleeping Beauty".

Soundtracks
Malinovka
Music by Eduard Khanok
Lyrics by Anatoliy Poperechnyy
Performed by Verasy, Aleksandr Tikhanovich
Courtesy of Melodiya Records

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10/10

great animated short and true reflection of its time

The animated film is a short story of a birthday celebration. Some guy invited his friends...However we don't see any of the characters - we only see the objects move. Moving chairs, moving forks and spoons, glasses with drinks, glasses and cigarettes etc. We hear conversations...The end of it all is the sight of ruined tableware, broken glasses...and the card flying off the dresser. The main character's mother, who ,we assume, has not seen her son in ages, wishes her son a very happy birthday.

The film is the product of its time- anti-alcoholism reforms started by Gorbachev found its way and had been reflected in Soviet cinema at the time.

However, what makes this film distinctive is a unique way it was filmed. It reminds us of movies about an invisible man and, yet it is totally original.