SYNOPSIS

Nazis? Bunnies? Yep. All true. How do we know? Because someone scrapbooked it.

As the German war machine brutally marched across Europe, its highest-ranking officials were simultaneously obsessed with Operation Angora, a bizarre, doomed project led by SS chief Heinrich Himmler to breed millions of Angora rabbits to supply the army, navy and air force with wool for uniforms.  This short documentary uses original, meticulous SS documentation—including records from concentration camps like Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Auschwitz—to expose the grotesque contradiction of the Nazi regime: unparalleled cruelty paired with a fanatical dedication to a ridiculous, harebrained scheme involving fluffy bunnies.

WORK IN PROGRESS SCREENINGS

Walla Walla Movie Crush - July , 2025 Walla Walla, WA, USA
Nominee: Beast of the Crush

DETAILS

Produced 2025
Documentary Short
Germany/US
9’ , Color/B&W
1080P
DCP/Quicktime ProRes

THE CREW

Directed by
Scott Calonico

Written by
Scott Calonico
Ted Glick

Produced by
Scott Calonico
Ted Glick
Sandy Wieding-Fries

Narration
Sandy Wieding-Fries

Editing
Nathan McGinty

Sound
Jeffrey J. Radice

THE TEAM

Scott Calonico is an award-winning director who has premiered documentary shorts at Sundance, Tribeca and Hot Docs, among other festivals. In 2021, he was commissioned by The New Yorker to write, direct and produce Catwoman vs. The White House, which premiered on The New Yorker website in February 2022.

Ted Glick has been producing corporate training, marketing video and advertising copy for twenty years. His first forays into entertainment have been productive.

Glick and Calonico first began working together on films, starting serving as various crew members on Tommy Pallotta’s (Producer, A Scanner Darkly) first feature, The High Road. They then collaborated on Calonico’s first narrative short, “The Collegians Are Go!!” (Microcinefest Award - Best Psychotronic Film). As the German war machine brutally marched across Europe, its highest-ranking officials were simultaneously obsessed with Operation Angora, a bizarre, doomed project led by SS chief Heinrich Himmler to breed millions of Angora rabbits to supply the army, navy and air force with wool for uniforms.  This short documentary uses original, meticulous SS documentation—including records from concentration camps like Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Auschwitz—to expose the grotesque contradiction of the Nazi regime: unparalleled cruelty paired with a fanatical dedication to a ridiculous, harebrained scheme involving fluffy bunnies.