Plasticine Crow
| Plasticine Crow | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Aleksandr Tatarskiy |
| Produced by | Aleksandr Tatarskiy |
| Written by | Aleksandr Tatarskiy Alexander Kushner (lyrics) Ovsey Driz Eduard Uspensky |
| Starring |
Leonid Bronevoy Grigory Gladkov Lev Shimelov |
| Music by | Grigory Gladkov |
| Cinematography | Ernst Gaman |
| Edited by | Lyubov Georgieva |
| Distributed by | Studio Ekran |
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Release date
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August 6, 1981 |
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Running time
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8 min. 57 sec. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Plasticine Crow (Russian: Пластилиновая ворона, translit. Plastilinovaya vorona) is a 1981 Soviet clay animation by Aleksandr Tatarskiy (T/O Ekran studio). Animation divided into three independent parts (Picture, Game and But maybe, but maybe...).
This first part tells kids about the three painting styles – landscape, still life and portrait.
Lyrics for the first part were composed by Alexander Kushner.
This part narrates about the children game where the player periodically opens and shuts his eyes. Every time the player opens them he's amazed as the new details appear.
Lyrics for the second part were composed by Ovsey Driz. Performed by Leonid Bronevoy.
This part is sung by storytellers who have forgotten the details of the fable of The Crow and the Fox, best known in Russian in the version by Krylov, and who are trying to remember it on the fly.
Thus, instead of the crow from Krylov's story, a dog appears, and then a cow, and even a Hippopotamus. The original fox is also replaced by an ostrich and then by a street cleaner.
At the end of the entirely distorted fable, a distorted moral is given: Don't stand and don't jump, don't sing and don't dance where there is construction in progress or heavy load hanging. (This is a pun on the two common Russian danger signs – "Don't stand under heavy load" and "Beware! Construction works in progress!").
The lyrics for the third part were composed by Eduard Uspensky.
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.
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