Hell (1983)

Hell (1983)

Release Date: 1983, January 1
Directors: Rein Raamat
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Tallinnfilm, Tallinnfilm

Overview:

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

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