Terrible Vavila and Auntie Arina

1928 Animation 6 minutes Directed by Olga Khodatayeva

About Terrible Vavila and Auntie Arina

On March 8, Vavila still wants his soup and porridge and tries to keep his wife Arina from the women's meeting. The things in the house turn on the housework. A poker and an oven fork drive Vavila and a neighbor off. Arina goes to the meeting, where the women set up a cooperative.

Cast & crew

More about Terrible Vavila and Auntie Arina

Nikolai Khodataev and his sister Olga Khodataeva made the silent drawn short for International Women's Day.

Themes

  • March 8
  • a husband who will not take the housework
  • household tools that take a side
  • Vavila
  • Arina
  • poker
  • cooperative
  • Soviet cartoon

Notes

  • Animator.ru lists it as number 2337. A circulating copy runs about six minutes.

Scenes

  • The poker stops Vavila when he blocks the door.
  • Arina leaves the undone housework for the women's meeting.