The Orchard

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
Price range: $

Early one morning three young children are in the orchard. They are stealing the old man's apples when the trouble begins... An old man lives high above a seaside village which one morning is jolted by a sharp earthquake. Nobody...

New Zealand Production

Short 1996 Family, Animation 10.00 minutes

From an Academy Award-nominated animator (The Frog, The Dog and the Devil). An old man lives alone high above a sea-side village. One morning the village is jolted by a sharp earthquake. Nobody is hurt but the old man remains very distressed, as he expects a tidal wave to follow. Unable to attract the villagers' attention, in desperation he sets fire to his own property.