The Dog Hotel

Hundhotellet En mystisk historia is a Swedish animated detective mysterysurreal film from 2000, directed by Per hlin who also wrote the script together with Hans ke Gabrielsson. The film is traditionally animated by hand, the last film in Sweden to be produced in that style.

The film was done completely with traditional, hand colored cells. Although playing out as an detective mystery the film is also very surreal. Sture wonders several times if it is all a dream or actually happening. At one point Sture has an outofbody experience, Chinese magic plays an important part of the plot and there are several references to ancient Egyptian religion, including Ka and Theodore M. Davis is mentioned. Sture never fully understands what is actually going on but tries to helps Miss Mops as much as he can. The first scene contains several hints at the future events in the film Stures flat contains an miniature Eiffel tower, a postcard featuring of the pyramids the same postcard appears later in the film as well as a painting of the hotel of the title. The film opens with the sinister Waiters appearing out of the painting to steal an Egyptian letterpress which reappears throughout the film and Sture identifies them as the same. The soundtrack is almost only Jazz. The ending is a homage to the ending of Stanley Kubricks production of The Shining.

Source: Wikipedia