Last Year's Snow Was Falling

Padal proshlogodniy sneg) is a 1983 Soviet clay-animated film directed by Alexander Tatarsky (T/O Ekran studio).

[2][3] For this work Tatarsky received the Silver Cooker award at the 1983 Varna International Film Festival.

The plot includes two interrelated stories – about the man's dreams and about incredible transformations inside the magic cabin on chicken legs.

The first story is based on the fairy tale about a greedy man who saw a rabbit in the forest, daydreamed about growing rich on it, and frightened it away with a shout.

The absurd style of narration raised censors' suspicions that the film contains encoded messages to foreign intelligence.