The Lady and the Reaper (Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: La dama y la muerte) is a 2009 Spanish 3D imaging

Stereoscopy

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 animated short film created by Javier Recio Gracia and produced by Kandor Graphics

Kandor Graphics

Kandor Graphics is an animation studio based in Granada .-Filmography:*The Missing Lynx - Plot: Follows the adventures of a group of animals in their quest to escape from being kidnapped by an unscrupulous hunter, hired by a benevolent millionaire to start a new Noah's ark...

. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and won the Goya Award

24th Goya Awards

The 24th Goya Awards were given in 2010 to honour the best in Spanish filmmaking of 2009.Cell 211 won the award for Best Film.-Major awards:-Other award nominees:...

 for Best Animated Short of 2009. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows

Animation show of shows

The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films, curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder, Ron Diamond. It began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, intelligent short animated films from all over the world and presenting them...

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Plot

An old lady, who lives alone in the countryside, is looking forward to death so that she can meet her dead husband. When the Reaper arrives and she is about to reach the afterlife, she is pulled away from the Reaper by a smug doctor. The Reaper and the doctor fight fiercely, and eventually medicine wins. The Reaper leaves, but the lady is not willing to postpone the encounter with her husband, electrocuting herself with the EKG, much to the dismay of the Reaper.

External links

• Official site