Shooting Range (film)

Shooting Range (Russian: Тир) is a 1979 Soviet animation film directed by Vladimir Tarasov. The film is twenty-one minutes long and is set to jazz music. It is a satirical critique of capitalism and life in the United States.

This article is about the 1979 animated short. For the 1977 animated short Firing Range (Russian: Полигон), see Polygon (film).
Shooting Range (Тир)
Directed byVladimir Tarasov
Written byViktor Slavkin
Music byVladimir Chekasin, Vyacheslav Ganelin, and Vladimir Tarasov
CinematographyKabul Rasulov
Edited byMargarita Mikheeva
Production
company
Distributed byKino International (USA)
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
21 minutes
CountryRussia (USA release in 2007)

Plot

In New York City, an unemployed young man finds a job in a shooting gallery as a living target. After a while, the man falls in love and lives in the gallery with his wife at gunpoint. Finally, they give birth to baby, and the shooting range owner wants to use it as another target, too. Disgusted, the family flies off, but there are a lot of other unemployed people to fill their position.


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