| The Old Man and the Sea | |
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| Directed by | Aleksandr Petrov |
| Screenplay by | Aleksandr Petrov |
| Based on | The Old Man and the Sea 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway |
| Produced by | Bernard Lajoie Tatsuo Shimamura |
| Starring | Gordon Pinsent Kevin Duhaney Yôji Matsuda |
| Cinematography | Sergey Reshetnikov |
| Edited by | Denis Papillon |
| Music by | Denis L. Chartrand Normand Roger |
| Distributed by | Filmoption International |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
| Countries | Russia Canada Japan |
| Languages | English French Russian Japanese |
The Old Man and the Sea (Старик и море) is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[1]
Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Russian, Canadian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently.