The Little Bear Cub and the One Who Lives in the River
The Little Bear and the One Who Lives in the River
The Bear Cub and the One Who Lives in the River
Медвежонок и тот, кто живёт в речке
Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye (ru)
L'Ourson et Celui-qui-vit-dans-la rivière (fr)
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The Little Bear and the One Who Lives in the River
The Bear Cub and the One Who Lives in the River
Медвежонок и тот, кто живёт в речке
Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye (ru)
L'Ourson et Celui-qui-vit-dans-la rivière (fr)
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| Year | 1966 |
| Director(s) | Grachyova Alla |
| Studio(s) | Kievnauchfilm |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Comedy |
| Animation Type(s) | Drawn (cel) |
| Length | 00:10:08 |
| Wordiness | 9.32 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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⭳ Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye.1966.en.1.24fps.1752536818.srt
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Creator(s): Eus, Niffiwan, Iryna Dmytrychyn₂
⭳ Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye.1966.fr.1.24fps.1677963833.srt
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⭳ Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye.1966.ru.1.24fps.1752539725.srt
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Creator(s): Eus, Iryna Dmytrychyn₂, Niffiwan₂
⭳ Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye.1966.en.1.24fps.1752536818.srt
Date: July 14 2025 23:46:58
Language: English
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Creator(s): Eus, Niffiwan, Iryna Dmytrychyn₂
⭳ Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye.1966.fr.1.24fps.1677963833.srt
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⭳ Medvezhonok i tot, kto zhivyot v rechkye.1966.ru.1.24fps.1752539725.srt
Date: July 15 2025 00:35:25
Language: Russian
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Creator(s): Eus, Iryna Dmytrychyn₂, Niffiwan₂
Description:
Little Bear walks alone in the woods and picks flowers for Mama Bear. The forest animals are amazed at his bravery. Suddenly, horror! He comes face to face with The One Who Lives in the River... Based on Lilian Moore's book "Little Raccoon and the Thing in the Pool".
Director Alla Hratchova (1924-2001) and illustrator Oleksandr Lavrov used watercolor on cut-out paper, with no sharp contrast between the characters and the background. The soft, almost transparent hues successfully convey the lyrical emotions of the forest, enchanted by sophisticated sound effects (real sounds and a musical score). Alla Grachyova entered animation in 1962 as a background artist. This film was her directorial debut and garnered immediate acclaim, notably winning first prize at the 1966 Gottwald Children's Film Festival.
It also won the Bronze Medal for an illustrated film and the SIDALG Jury Prize of the International Committee for the Dissemination of Writing, Information and Cinema in 1967.
Scanned and restored by the laboratory of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center in 2021-2022 using 35mm film material preserved in its collections (for more info in French and Russian, see here).
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A sweet cartoon for really little kids. I must say, the new restoration makes it look really stunning - the beauty of this more "modernist" 1960s art style really shines. This was made in the fifth year of the "rebirth" of Ukrainian animation, after being suspended in the late 1930s. Effectively, this means that unlike Russian and Georgian and even Armenian animation (which had animation studios through this period, though barely so in Armenia's case), Ukrainian animation never went through any sort of "socialist realist" phase.