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Bình luận theo đầu phim The Girl Lucy and Grandpa Krylov (2003)
1.  Admin  2026-08-14 00:20:25 (đã hiệu đính 2026-08-14 00:30:17)

Certainly one of the best entries in Animos studio's "Russian Classics for Children" series. This film is so rich, and everything (acting, art direction, screenplay, music) seems to be in top form here. Nor does it simplify the material or seem to speak down to its audience, like some of the other films in the series. The source material is curious - a story written by a writer who left Russia because of the Revolution. Not something that could have been adapted during Soviet times, I think. Eus, who originally submitted this (and may have made the first version of the English subtitles, 13 years ago) wrote "Personally this animation made me understand the Russian obsession with/enchantment by an even more famous Russian Poet & Writer: Aleksandr Pushkin".

I will say, though, if showing this to children, it probably helps if they are familiar with the Krylov fable in question (though that is very likely to already be the case, if they are Russian).

There is no great English translation of the original Krylov fable that I've found online, by the way. Perhaps the one by Lydia Razran Stone in the book "The Frogs Who Begged For A Tsar (And 61 Other Russian Fables)" is good (because some of the others in the book sample seem nice enough), but it can't be found online.



Bình luận theo đầu phim Little Havroshechka (2006)
1.  Admin  2026-08-13 12:39:31 (đã hiệu đính 2026-08-13 12:40:52)

This is probably the strangest of Animos studio's puppet animations that I've seen so far. The fairy tale that it is based on is itself profoundly strange and frightening, but at least supposedly takes place in "our" world. The screenplay makes it even more strange by making the girl live in some sort of different dimension (moreover, it is not at all clear how she ended up there), and by having her cow's ear be the passageway to a nicer world. In the original tale, the three evil stepsisters are just nasty women rather than spider-monsters. There are a lot of things in this adaptation that make more sense symbolically than logically. In some ways, it reminds me of the 2009 American puppet-animated feature, "Coraline".

Unfortunately, it seems like this was the last puppet animation that Mihaylova made. Her next project was the 2D animated feature "Buratino's Return" that came out 6 years later, which seems to not have been well-liked. I'm not sure, but it may be that Animos studio as a whole also stopped making puppet animation around this time.

I couldn't find any version of this without the English hard-subs. The translation in them was a bit ungrammatical though, so I fixed it up somewhat.



Bình luận theo đầu phim The Circle of Life (2015)
1.  Admin  2026-08-12 01:36:28 (đã hiệu đính 2026-08-12 09:36:50)

A more mature and ambitious film from Kravchenko than the one made 10 years before. The story is told competently, though the genre (a fairy tale with a moral) is likely the most common one in Russian animation. The visual style is probably the most interesting part. I also liked some of the little touches, like the animals responding to the bows of the little bird with their own bows. I couldn't find the film on YouTube, but the director uploaded it to his own VK channel.



Bình luận theo đầu phim Jubilee (1983)
2.  Admin  2026-08-12 01:29:36 (đã hiệu đính 2026-08-12 01:31:22)

I updated the description after I read a very informative article about Tarasov published by Georgiy Borodin earlier this year. At that link, you can see screenshots of some scenes that have been cut from the version of the film above.

Also, it seems that this was part of a bigger international project, and that other countries also made similar films at the time. I wonder what their names are, and if any of those have survived?

It is still unclear what the anniversary was supposed to be. Borodin's article says it was meant to be "the 100th anniversary of the birth of animation", but I am unaware of anything that happened in 1883 specifically.



Bình luận theo đầu phim Farewells on an Ice Floe (1938)
2.  Admin  2026-08-11 17:22:14

I learned something relevant today. Boris Dyozhkin and Gennadiy Filippov created a cartoon with a very similar plot in 1937 at Soyuzmultfilm in Moscow (for Dyozhkin, the studio's star animator, it was the first time he directed): Привет героям! (Greetings to the Heroes!). Dyozhkin had heard about the success of the Arctic expedition, and burned with the desire to commemorate it. He called on Filippov, who found a composer, and they locked themselves in their room with bread and water and finished animating the movie in just 7 days! (as related by Dyozhkin's wife in her interview with Sergey Kapkov, which I read in his 2025 book "The Legends of Soyuzmultfilm Studio", p. 55) It was not in the studio plan, but the management had no choice but to accept the film, which was well liked by viewers. However, it apparently has not survived at all, not even a still image from it!

So, I was thinking: this Ukrainian cartoon from Odessa was likely inspired by the earlier one made in Moscow. Maybe that could even be one of the reasons it wasn't allowed to be finished? Did some higher-up say "we already have something similar"?



Bình luận theo đầu phim Masks (2005)
1.  Admin  2026-08-11 09:21:05

A very non-Russian-feeling Russian cartoon, starting with the Halloween setting (which wasn't celebrated at all until pretty recently, and then only on a surface level).



Bình luận theo đầu phim Portuguese Lullaby (2009)
1.  Admin  2026-08-05 11:26:02 (đã hiệu đính 2026-08-05 11:36:09)

After a very long time, I've finally translated another one of the lullabies from the "Lullabies of the World" series. This is the 23rd on the site, out of a total of 60 (the full list can be found here). Not all of them are as good, but this one is lovely. It speaks, entirely in visual language, of the little girl's worries about the future - in her dream, she casts off in her own boat (leaving home to start her own family), only for it to end in disaster. And when she tries to come back to her old home, there is no longer one to return to.

The lyrics are not really necessary for understanding the film, but they complement it and don't hurt, either. I've done my best to translate the song well, although I understand only a little bit of Portuguese.



Bình luận theo đầu phim The Secret of the Third Planet (1981)
7.  Admin  2026-08-02 13:18:08

>>6
Good news indeed! If it is actually well done it might make sense to add the video link. I haven't added the English dubs because they are not well done.

It would be great if somebody could transcribe the German translation and match it to the Russian version of the film, though I realize it would be a big job.



Bình luận theo đầu phim The Secret of the Third Planet (1981)
6.  multikenjoyer  2026-08-01 14:55:21 (đã hiệu đính 2026-08-03 03:16:12)

>>5
Good news: I finally found the original german dub for Mystery of the Third Planet! It was posted rather recently at the beginning of april on Youtube. Found it only by chance, when I was curious and tried finding german dubs of soviet cartoons, since germany was once occupied by the soviets for a long time and DEFA, the studio, which was founded in the soviet occupation zone in germany, was responsible for distributing many soviet films there. Also being able to speak not only russian, but also german, like I do, also played a part :).

Here's the link to the dub: link

The dub is pretty well done, competently made and not bad at all, voice actors are also doing a good job, though I would still rather watch this film in it's original language, simply by habit alone :).

Nevertheless it's a very cool curiosity for sure and though a few the attempts at translating the russian into german are clunky, it still has some charme to it and at least it is in my opinion better made than the german dub for ''The Little Humpbacked Horse''(1975). Also it's still bizarre to me seing something you grew up watching in your native language, only to discover it has a dub made for it in a foreign language you know, but only recently found out about it..

I will try and find other german dubs of other animated films on here and post the links to them in the comments under the respective films, simply out of curiosity and for the others, who might want to find out, how the films were translated into german and which changes they made to the dialogue, which I must imagine must be a real pain in the butt, because of the difficulty during the translation (since russian to german very untranslateable), though I'm sure that's not a new problem in dubbing.


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Bình luận theo đầu phim Fox the Builder (1936)
1.  Admin  2026-07-30 01:04:59 (đã hiệu đính 2026-07-30 11:24:29)

Although the later 1950 film with the same name (which stays much closer to the original literary source) is probably better known, this earlier 1930s version (made in the first year of Soyuzmultfilm's existence, when it was still called Soyuzdetmultfilm) is a lot of fun. A great jazz soundtrack and lyrics. This was Ivanov's follow-up to his big hit of the year before, which has unfortunately been lost (only the 1950s remake survives). The animal musicians here are given a prominent appearance, though they originally have nothing to do with the story. But they were popular, so they were in! Much the same logic as the appearance of Mickey Mouse or Betty Boop in stories that had nothing to do with them in American animation, of which Ivanov was a big fan (and this was the main source of conflict between him and fellow director Ivanov-Vano - a conflict that Ivanov-Vano eventually won simply by living longer, and the escalating Cold War didn't hurt).

Like the later 1950 adaptation, I managed to translate this one in rhyme, with the same number of syllables per line, and close to the same meaning. I also, in a first for me, did it entirely while on an airplane, using the on-flight wifi.



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