Shooting Range (Тир) | |
Director: | Vladimir Tarasov |
Music: | Vladimir Chekasin, Vyacheslav Ganelin, and Vladimir Tarasov |
Cinematography: | Kabul Rasulov |
Editing: | Margarita Mikheeva |
Studio: | Soyuzmultfilm |
Distributor: | Kino International (USA) |
Runtime: | 21 minutes |
Country: | Russia (USA release in 2007) |
Shooting Range (ru|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.
In New York City, an unemployed young man (based on Holden Caulfield) 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 a 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.