Shooting Range (film)

This article is about the 1979 animated short. For the 1977 animated short Firing Range (Russian: Полигон), see Polygon (film).

Shooting Range (Russian: Тир) is a 1979 Soviet animation film directed by Vladimir Tarasov. The film is twenty-one minutes long and is set to jazz music. It is a satirical critique of capitalism and life in the United States.

Shooting Range (Тир)
Directed by	Vladimir Tarasov
Written by	Viktor Slavkin
Cinematography	Kabul Rasulov
Edited by	Margarita Mikheeva
Music by	Vladimir Chekasin, Vyacheslav Ganelin, and Vladimir Tarasov
Production company	Soyuzmultfilm
Distributed by	Kino International (USA)
Release date	1979 (1979)
Running time	21 minutes
Country	Russia (USA release in 2007)

Plot

In New York City, an unemployed young man (based on Holden Caulfield) finds a job in a shooting gallery as a living target. After a while, the man falls in love and lives in the gallery with his wife at gunpoint. Finally, they give birth to a baby, and the shooting range owner wants to use it as another target, too. Disgusted, the family flies off, but there are a lot of other unemployed people to fill their position.

External links

• Tir (1979) at IMDb
• Shooting Range at Letterboxd
• Shooting Range on YouTube
• "SAXOPHONES AND SOCIALIST SATIRE: SHOOTING RANGE". Paneurasianist Weeb. 26 March 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
• "Tarasov, Vladimir". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 24 September 2021.