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Plastilinovaya vorona
Directed byAleksandr Tatarskiy
Written byAleksandr Tatarskiy
lyrics by Eduard Uspensky
Produced byAleksandr Tatarskiy
CinematographyErnst Gaman
Music byGrigory Gladkov
Distributed byStudio Ekran
Release dates
August 6, 1981
Running time
8 min 57 sec
CountrySoviet Union USSR
LanguageRussian

Plasticine Crow (or Plastilinovaya vorona, Template:Lang-ru) is a 1981 Soviet clay animation by Aleksandr Tatarskiy (T/O Ekran studio).

Animation divided into three independent parts.



But maybe, but maybe...

This part narrate about the story-tellers, who forgot the Krylov's fable The Crow and the Fox trying to remember it on the move.

Thus, instead of the Crow the Dog appears, then the Cow and one time even the Hippopotamus! The Fox is also replaced by the Ostrich and then by the Janitor.

Absolutely distorted fable ended up with a distorted rhymed moral - «Don't stand and don't jump, don't sing and don't dance there, where the construction works in progress or hanging heavy load». (This is a pun on the two common Russian danger signs - "Don't stand under heavy load" and "Beware! Construction works in progress!").

Voice cast

Censorship

The Soviet censorship wanted to decline the film because they saw it as "ideological nonsense". Xeniya Marinina and Eldar Ryazanov saved it by showing "The Crow" in one of the releases of their "Kinopanorama" in contrary to the Soviet censors.

Interesting facts

  • Creation of the film required about 800 kg of soviet plasticine. Because of a withered colors the plasticine was dye-colored.
  • The music in the third part of the film was intended to sound in the ordinary tempo, but it's total length appeared to be longer than the animation created (8 minutes instead of 5). While Tatarskiy was in doubt the voices arrived. Then the genius decision came when Tatarskiy remembered how the gramophone-recorded voice of Lenin was restored by varying speed of phonation. He griped the recording to the necessary length (5 min) and the song acquired it's recognisable sounding.
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