The Bath House

The Bath House

1962 · 53 min · ★ 7.8 · Animation

Inventor Chudakov builds a time machine. All that remains is to interest the technical innovation officials and receive authorization to continue the experiment. And it turns out that's the hardest part! The end point in this inventor's struggle will only be set by a "phosphoric woman" arriving from a wonderful future...

Directed by Sergei Yutkevich · Written by Anatoliy Karanovich

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