A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

1989 · 15 min · Animation

A story about the strange appearance of an unusual person in the rural courtyard of ordinary people. One evening, Pelayo, the owner of the yard met a very old man with white wings in his yard. He had a poor, squalid, dirty look. Pelayo and his wife, Elisenda, decided that this man was a foreign sailor who was shipwrecked, but they still decided to call a neighbor. She said that this was an angel who was sent to take care of a sick child of this family. And they left the old man in their coop. Soon the whole village knew about the appearance of this strange creature.

Directed by Oleg Belousov · Written by Oleg Belousov

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