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This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.
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- Director
- Ben Zelkowicz
- Produced by
- Ben Zelkowicz
- Origin countries
- Canada, United States
- Runtime
- 6m
- Language
- English
- TMDB
- 8.7/10 (3 votes)
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (88 votes)
Released January 16, 2003
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