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Onions and Garlic

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
    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.

Literature and Language Canada - Images of a Country All subjects
  • director
    Eva Szasz
  • script
    Eva Szasz
  • producer
    Andy Thomson
  • executive producer
    Robert Verrall
    Floyd Elliott
  • animation
    Joyce Borenstein
  • narrator
    Gail Garfinkle
Onions and Garlic
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