The Toll Collector

Feb 08, 2003 10m

4.8

5 votes

Synopsis

A parable about a thwarted dream. A narrator tells us about a young woman who wants, more than anything, to be a ballerina. Thanks to animation, we see the problem: her legs make up about three-quarters of her height. She sees the impossibility of her dream and moves to a house on an isolated hill where she lives by herself, lonely, practicing her art, and then, in near despair, taking up knitting. Madness seems close at hand, but is there anything that can bring hope and pull her from her solitary, circumscribed life?

Title	The Toll Collector
Companies	Kent Richards Pictures, Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky
Countries	Czech Republic, United States of America
Keywords	alone, stop motion, ballerina