A sultan's son eats an entire island chain. No, seriously. The whole thing.
Simbad, the Sultan's son, is only interested in TV. As a punishment, his father sent him on a sea voyage. A storm plunges the ship to the Sandwich Islands. Simbad eats the Sandwich Islands. Then he married a princess. Simbad fights with sea monsters. He returns to Baghdad with great wealth and buys himself a super-television.
Writing
Narrative logic that commits fully to zero logic
Production
Bulgarian animation chaos that somehow exists
Director
Georgi Dimitrov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Bulgarian short is part of a weird global trend of 90s Eastern European animators reimagining classic tales through aggressively capitalist lenses.
Director Georgi Dimitrov made this at 23, presumably fueled by disdain for television and possibly very specific hunger.
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