Once upon a time, in a village called Village there was a horse named Horse who lived with a cowboy named Cowboy and an Indian named Indian.
Cowboy and Indian (who’ve kept their American accents even in the dubbed version) live with Horse and are the family’s mischief-makers. For Horse’s birthday they give him a do-it-yourself barbecue (absurd because the horse eats only hay). But they make a mistake in ordering the bricks for it (50 million instead of 50). This incident leads to a nonsensical odyssey through the center of the earth, the North Pole and the seas, always full of the comical, surreal and grotesque.
The two directors/magicians of the animation began their story by buying at a flea market three vintage plastic statuettes – a cowboy, and Indian and a horse – and, instead of putting them into a John Wayne-type western, they catapulted them into a four-person village (a mailman, a policeman, a farmer and his wife) living amongst tractors, sheep and cows. |
