Short film
The Three Fools
Тримата глупаци
Donyo Donev · 1970
Synopsis
Three comic companions, the fools of the title, make their screen entrance in this first film of their series. They do not say a single intelligible word: they express themselves through interjections and a distorted speech, to the sound of the drum and the bagpipe, in settings with simplified lines. The animated film turns them into a satire of human failings. The plot of this first episode is not known.
Context
It is the first of a series of eleven short films that the author made from 1970 to 1990, later varied as hunters, athletes, teachers or fishermen. The animation is the work of Antoni Trayanov, whom the catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France credits as co-director. The characters spilled beyond the screen: they gave their name to a satirical newspaper in which the author took part, and which in 1997 became “Les Quatre Nigauds”.
Who it is for
A short film of about ten minutes, without dialogue; a French videocassette appeared in 1982, under the title Les Trois Nigauds.
Prizes and reception
Awarded the Golden Mill at the Barcelona festival the year after its release; the series comprises eleven films.
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