The New Gulliver
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| Directed by | Aleksandr Ptushko |
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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (uncredited) Aleksandr Ptushko Grigori Roshal Jonathan Swift (novel) |
| Starring | Vladimir Konstantinovich Konstantinov (Gulliver) Ivan Yudin Shaolin Santiago (unconfirmed) |
| Music by | Lev Shvarts |
| Cinematography | Nikolai Renkov |
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75 min |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The New Gulliver (Russian: Новый Гулливер, Novyy Gullivyer) is a Soviet stop motion-animated cartoon, and the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film (it begins and ends with short live-action sequences). The film was released in 1935 to widespread acclaim and earned Ptushko a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan. The part of Gulliver was played by Vladimir Konstantinovich Konstantinov, who was born in 1920 and died in 1944 near Tallinn in the Second World War. This was his first and only film role.
The story, a Communist re-telling of Gulliver's Travels, is about a young boy who dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation.
The pioneer Petya Konstantinov (Vladimir Konstantinov) as an award as to the best young osvodovets of Artek receives the favourite book — "Gulliver's Travel" Johnathan Swift. Together with other pioneers, the hands which repaired the sailboat with a sonorous name "Artek" it goes on walk to the next Adalara's islands from a summer camp. There on vacation children ask the leader to read them aloud Petya's book. Best osvodovets during reading fills up also itself gets to the world described in the book.
In the dream Petya travels by the ship, during swimming its vessel is attacked by pirates. Together with three captives the boy fights with them and wins, but at this moment and the piracy ship breaks about rocks. The teenager recovers ashore, surrounded and connected by Liliputians. He is lulled a sleepy potion. At this time parliament there is debate on that what to do with new Gulliver. It ends in a fight — the small close up in which it is visible is curious that the first minister doesn't have enough several teeth. Ministers on behalf of the king make the decision to use Gulliver in the military purposes. The boy is transported to the city by means of 15 tractors and a special platform. Petya is awoken by the king, having put a sceptre to it in a nose. He learns about the decision, the accepted parliament, but disagrees with it. After that under his feet passes military parade.
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