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Onions and Garlic

Eva Szasz

1978 4 min

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This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.

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  Canada Vignettes

  1978 43 films

  Discover this series of classic shorts exploring every facet of Canadian culture and history.

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This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.

See also

Literature and Language

Canada - Images of a Country

All subjects

Credits

• director
  Eva Szasz
  
• script
  Eva Szasz
  
• producer
  Andy Thomson
  
• executive producer
  Robert Verrall
  
  Floyd Elliott
  
• animation
  Joyce Borenstein
  
• narrator
  Gail Garfinkle
  

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