Village of Idiots

Village of Idiots
Directed byEugene Fedorenko
Rose Newlove
Written byJohn Lazarus
Produced byJohn Spotton
John Taylor
Dennis Murphy
Gerry Flahive
Barrie Angus McLean
David Verrall
Narrated byNicholas Rice
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Village of Idiots is a short animated comedy based on the classic humorous Jewish folk tales about the Wise Men of Chełm, directed and animated by Eugene Fedorenko and Rose Newlove, written by John Lazarus, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).[1] Fedorenko is the Academy Award-winning animator of the 1979 NFB short Every Child. In 1999, it was one of four films in the 1st Annual Animation Show of Shows.

  1. ^ "Village of Idiots". National Film Board of Canada Web site. Retrieved 1 June 2009.