About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations (1966) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1966 · 17 mins · Russian

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Directed by

Leonid Amalrik

Starring

Grigoriy Shpigel, Georgiy Vitsin, Georgi Millyar, Mikhail Yanshin, Elena Ponsova

On a beach in a southern town, a group of animals lounges, swims and dances. Their fun is briefly halted by a poster that reads, “Everyone needs to vaccinate, from the elephant to the fly!” The crowd simply shrugs and returns to sunbathing, while the nervous hippopotamus Behemoth anxiously wonders how frightening and painful the vaccinations might be.