The Enchanted Boy
| The Enchanted Boy Заколдованный мальчик |
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Nils on Martin's back during their adventure across Lapland
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| Directed by | Vladimir Polkovnikov Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya |
| Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
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Selma Lagerlöf (story) Mikhail Volpin |
| Starring | Valentina Sperantova Alexey Konsovskiy Tatyana Strukova Anatoly Kubatsky Erast Garin Georgiy Vitsin |
| Music by | Vladimir Yurovskiy |
| Edited by | Nina Mayorova |
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46 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Enchanted Boy (Russian: Заколдованный мальчик, Zakoldovanyy malchik) is a 1955 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film directed by Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. The film is an adaptation of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
The film's image and sound were recently restored by the Russian company Krupnyy Plan, which released it on video and DVD packaged together with Cipollino, a 1961, 40-minute feature film directed by Boris Dyozhkin. No English-subtitled version has been released.
The naughty boy Nils, who delights in torturing animals, is bewitched by a tomte. Now shrunken to a small size and able to talk to animals, he flies across Lapland on the backs of wild geese. During these dangerous travels he does many noble deeds, and, at the same time, searches for the tomte who would take the spell away.
In the early nineties the animated film is released on videotapes by the film association "Krupnyy Plan", later to the middle of the 1990th — in the collection "The Best Soviet Animated Films" of Studio PRO Video, in the mid-nineties — in the collection of animated films of a film studio "Soyuzmultfilm" a videostudio "Soyuz", since 1996 was reissued by the same studio.
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