The Cow (1989)

Although this cartoon is an early work of Alexander Petrov (nominated for best animated short film at the 1990 Oscar), its vivid drawing is impressive, and each frame is extracted separately as an exquisite oil painting. Next to a railway track in a rural area of Russia, there lives an ordinary family of three. In the boy's memory, the family lived a quiet and beautiful life with a cow and her child. The cow was used by his father as a ploughing cow to plough land and provide them with milk to eat. Later, the father sold the calf, and the grieving cow made a series of crazy actions in the sight of the boy while the father was away, and then the disaster came. At this point, cows, calves, trains and ploughs were fixed in the boy's mind, and whenever he recalled the past, the feeling of sweetness and sadness always floated to his mind.