The Humpbacked Horse (film)
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DVD cover (Krupnyy Plan)
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| Directed by | Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
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Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (poem) A. Surkov |
| Starring |
Georgiy Millyar Georgy Vitsin Valentina Sperantova Anatoly Kubatsky Leonid Pirogov Alexander Kachanov |
| Music by | V. Oranskiy |
| Cinematography | Nikolai Voinov |
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57 minutes |
| Country | USSR |
| Language | Russian |
The Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к; tr.:Konyok Gorbunok, thas is The Little Horse - Little Humpback), dubbed in the United States as The Magic Pony, is a 1947 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on the poem by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, and because of this everyone in the film speaks in rhymes. A remake was made in 1977 by the same director and studio.
An old man has three sons: the elder two are considered fairly smart, while the youngest, Ivan, is considered an idiot. One day the father sends the three to find out who's been taking the hay in their fields at night. The elder brothers decide to lie hidden in a haystack, where they promptly fall asleep. Ivan, meanwhile, sits beside a birch tree and plays on his recorder. Suddenly, he sees a magnificent horse come flying out of the sky. Ivan grabs her mane and holds on as the horse tries to shake him off. Finally, the horse begs him to let her go and in return gives him two beautiful black male horses and a little humpbacked horse (Konyok-gorbunok) to be his companion.
Ivan leads the two black horses to a stable and runs off with Konyok-gorbunok to fetch them buckets of water. When he comes back, he finds that his brothers have taken his horses. Konyok-gorbunok tells him that they will catch them in the city, so Ivan sits on its back and they go flying through the clouds. Along the way, Ivan finds the fiery feather of a firebird, which shines without giving off any heat, and takes it despite Konyok-gorbunok's warning that it will cause him difficulty later.
They reach the city, and Ivan outwits his brothers and sells his black horses to the Tsar. When it is found that nobody can control them except Ivan, he is put in charge of the Tsar's stables. The Tsar's advisor takes a disliking to Ivan, and hides himself in the stables to watch him at work so that he can think of a way to remove him from the Tsar's favour. After seeing Ivan use the firebird's feather for light, he steals it from him and shows it to the Tsar, who commands Ivan to catch him a firebird or lose his post.
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