The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992) — a twenty-minute animated film you can watch online on iFILM — is directed by Alexander Petrov and based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1877 short story, with Alexander Kaidanovsky as the voice of the unnamed narrator.

A man has decided life holds nothing for him and picks up a gun. He falls asleep before he can fire it. In his dream he dies, arrives on another world — an exact mirror of Earth — and meets people who have never known sin or deception. What that encounter does to his resolve is the film's whole question.

Petrov animated on glass, painting each frame by hand. Twenty tight minutes with no padding. Stream The Dream of a Ridiculous Man online on iFILM.