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Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Inspired by the classic books by L. Frank Baum and Alexander Volkov
Short film directed for a project on the theme "Love", by three students of GOBELINS "Character animation and animated film" They worked for 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.
It's December and Christmastime, but outside the summer sun blazes. Something is wrong! The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Every Estonian has to decide how they will spend their last days. Rait finally wants to confess his feelings to his lifelong love, the starlet Lenna Kuurmaa. His friend Mihkel, hits his head, goes bonkers, and needs to save the world by sacrificing that very same Lenna to the Sun Gods. Brenda wants to escape her dictatorial mother but insane asylum orderlies chase her. Ervin wins the world's last lottery and is so upset by not having any way to spend it that he wants to die from misery. Confusion reigns, but hope always dies last... And, fortunately, the end finally comes.
Engineer McLean, the prince's wife Shirvanskaya and his lover Rumanescu, who came to the Soviet Union, pretend to be circus actors and act to the detriment of the country. Arranged as a worker in the oil industry, Rumanescu steals blueprints of a military invention from the chemist Petrov. Tom Jackson discovers that the circus performer and the saboteur John are one and the same person. Saboteurs, who will be chased by "red devils" and militia workers. They will try to escape abroad, but they will die in an avalanche near the Turkish border.
Live action adaptation of the soviet cartoon shorts Umka (1969) Umka ishchet druga (1970)