Jul 28, 1983
15 min
Full-HD

The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1983)

Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".

Jan Žáček

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