Hundreds of Beavers

Staple your eyelids to your forehead, because blinking is forbidden in the face of the visual madness that pours down on you for 108 ludicrous minutes. It's as if Buster Keaton, Monty Python cartoon genius Terry Gilliam, the chaos troupe of the Looney Tunes and Wes Anderson, the grand master of eccentric humour, had joined forces to whip up a veritable frenzy of brilliantly absurd gags. The award-winning live-action cartoon amazes, enraptures, irritates, makes you burst out laughing and completely delights. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson also get involved.

If only he had taken better care of his apple brandy! Then he wouldn't have to fight his way through the deep snow completely destitute. But Jean Kayak knows how to help himself: He becomes a fur hunter! And with the help of ingenious traps, he takes on sarcastic raccoons, gay hares and hundreds of beavers. If only the man-sized animals weren't as tall as his tree trunk...

Silent film (with English tableaux)