THE BEST CUSTOMER

Kruchowsky family owns a funeral home. One day, an old man orders twelve funerary wreaths with sympathy messages for many relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Kruchowsky become suspicious and start to investigate this potential cold blooded assassin.


  • Production countries, year: Romania, 2017
  • Produced by deFilm
  • Running time: 11 min
  • Animation technique: stop motion
  • Screening format: DCP
  • Screen ratio: 1:1.33
  • Framerate: 24
  • Original language: English
  • Cast: IONUȚ GRAMA | SILVIU GHERMAN | ALEX IORDĂNESCU | CRISTINA TOMA | RADU STANCU | ALEX SECĂREANU
  • Director & Scriptwriter: SERGHEI CHIVIRIGA
  • Producer: RADU STANCU 
  • Executive Producer: IOANA LASCAR
  • Animator: TUDOR OM
  • Director of Photography: ADRIAN TUDOSE
  • Art Direction: IOANA NICOARĂ | TUDOR CODREANU
  • Editor: GABRIEL BASALICI
  • Sound Design: ALEXANDRU DUMITRU
  • Music: HEAR HEAR STUDIO
  • Costumes: SVETLANA MIHĂILESCU
  • Visual Effects: ALIN DUMITRU | LIVIU DINU
  • Make-up: ADA RADU
  • Anim’est | Audience Award | 2017
  • Anim’est | Special Mention | 2017
  • Sedicicorto | Audience Award | 2017
  • SEE Film Festival Los Angeles | Best Short Animation | 2018
  • CRAFT IAFF | Cinematography Award | 2018
  • Animocje IAFF | Audience Award | 2018
  • Timishort | Best Romanian short | 2018
  • Dracula Film Festival | Vladut Award | 2018
  • FANTOCHE | Elveția 2017
  • ANIMA MUNDI | Brazilia 2017
  • ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY | SUA 2017
  • MONTREAL STOP MOTION  | 2017
  • ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL | 2017
  • MILANO FILM FESTIVAL | 2017
  • WARSAW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | 2017
  • CUT OUT FEST | 2017

©deFilm 2017


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