Things that stood out to me about this one:
- The way Garsevan spends his time at the nature reserve is kind of unconvincing and it seems like he could've done most/all of that at a city park. I think the people who made this movie were not actually very outdoorsy people.
- Fun character designs for the three villains (although the trigger-happy yet miniscule caricature of an American cowboy is a bit... suspect)
- Robert Saakyants was one of the 3 animators (not mentioned on animator.ru), though this was three years AFTER he started directing his own films
- the film is fundamentally pessimistic. The hapless main character ultimately can't do a thing to solve the problem of the poachers, other than escape to the moon with a few refugees (!). A decade or two earlier, at least in Soyuzmultfilm, no script editor would have allowed such a script to go to production - they would have likely insisted on adding some positive qualities to Garsevan that would have allowed him to solve the problem, or show a path for those watching the film to solve it. A decade later, in the Perestroika period, such hopeless plots became commonplace in the Moscow animation studios, too.

Loved the art and technique on this one! Might bookmark for future reference

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>shouldn't the chart be called a map instead?
Hm... although "sea-chart" is pretty commonly used, I suppose that "chart" by itself to mean "map" is not.
On the other hand, maybe it IS among sailors? A quick Google search suggests that maybe that's the case.
I suppose I was loathe to change Mr. Icon's translation as he seemed to know what he was doing.
It would probably be the safest thing to do, but I'm still a bit unsure.

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Indeed. Although I find what happens more disturbing than the way it is visually portrayed, which is why I guess I didn't mark this (I normally really dislike "gore").

By the way, at some point, this site will have a better way of displaying what age category a film is aimed at than a simple "NSFW" genre. So for a film like this, I guess it should clearly be marked as aimed at adults and contraindicated for children (with a "neutral" for teens). There will inevitably be some debatable value judgements involved in that, but on the whole, probably preferable to having no info about that at all.

This film seems like "Dam Jong the Braveman" from Vietnam.

I like how this film takes its simplicity to its favour to send a clear message about religion. With just black and white paper origamis, they tell a story about religion and how it happens in real life: discrimination, cults, etc.

This was a very innocent and creative short film that truly embodies the childish cheerful imaginative mind and play. I find it very charming

CW: Gore in a scene.

In english subtitles- shouldn't the chart be called a map instead? It's called that in the english name of the movie too.

The series never before got translated past the 3rd episode. And truly, this 4th episode is a lot less interesting than the previous one (maybe partly because of the political theme? Not very overt, but considering the time period, it seems clear enough to me).

I don't think it's actually bad, but it's not very special either. However, the next episode after this one is again excellent...