Well, since I know this is going to come up...
I'm aware of the whole Kyiv/Kiev thing. In this case, I used "Kiev" and Russian personal names for the credits in the subtitles because this film was made in the Soviet era and that was more widespread at the time (plus for names, I'm less likely to make a mistake that way).

For post-independence Ukrainian cartoons on this site, I use the Ukrainian transliterations.

>>2
Will try to watch them !
Despite the "weirdness" of the film, the metaphore is quite simple so o I wouldn't be surprised if kids understood it, but I'm also surprised how kids weren't scared of the surrealism and disturbing scenes haha, but I guess it was the times

>>4
Oh besides the CW I punted out here, I was just thinking of pointing out in next films (if I find it) distubing and graphic stuff that are sensitive to the regular audience. (nudity not counting as it is rather natural) For example: scenes of decapitation, SA, self deleting(? and graphic blood scenes

An odd feature of this cartoon is that the traffic lights are "upside down"; they have red on the bottom and green on the top.

Some people on RuTracker asked about this back in 2013 - here's a translation of the reply of user "dvdss" there, who did some research:

Previously, the location of signals at traffic lights was not regulated, and the red light in some countries was located at the bottom of the traffic light. Only in 1949 was the Convention on Road Traffic and the Protocol on Road Signs and Signals adopted in Geneva. This unified national traffic standards and established the modern type of traffic light with the red signal located on top.

Therefore, the pre-WW2 Soviet New Year tree toy "Traffic Light" (Светофор), made of cardboard, had the upper light green and the lower one red. (The year of installation of the first traffic lights in the USSR was 1935)



This suggests the conclusion that, despite the fact that the cartoon was created in 1952, and the adoption of the Convention on the Unification of Colors in Geneva occurred in 1949, these rules reached the USSR a little later (at least 3 years later). Although in those days this was probably not the most important thing in the country, but an interesting fact!

And for sure, the traffic lights were not switched over to the new color layout in one day, so the director and artists likely drew the old traffic light model only because the new ones were not yet in front of their eyes - but who knows!

>>1
I agree, this is one of my favourites as well. Also, for how abstract and metaphorical parts of it are, it is surprisingly well-received by children.

I've got to add more of Hrzhanovskiy's films on here, but many of them require attentive and careful translation (such as his famous Pushkin trilogy).

>>3
>Right now, would it be fine if I mark some "heavy scenes" (graphic stuff) in the comments just in case as CW/TWs (only if it's really present)?
If you feel like it, sure. I suppose for this one, I thought the words "tragic folk story" in the first sentence was enough of a hint that this wouldn't be easy viewing. Mostly, I've been writing warnings for things like nudity, even when it's not actually objectionable (like in "Olympians" - which has male nudity but which I don't feel deserves the "NSFW" genre). Are there some other things you've noticed, then?

>>4
>I was wondering if this has a name?
Well, it's based on Azeribaijani carpet art... so I guess that would be the place to look, if there's a particular name for it. I think the name would be the name of that particular carpet art style...

It is precisely one of the strengths of cutout animation that it allows for a wider range of visual styles (at the cost of being harder to animate smoothly).

Absolutely loved the technique, colours and surrealist scenes on this! Will definitely save it on a playlist

>>3
I agree in a lot of this! I was looking for more info of the director but couldn't find more stuff more than his profile on animator.rus, which is a shame because I wanted to see more stuff exactly like this oof. Cut out is one of my favourite animation techniques recently, and every film is different in aesthetic but this one in particular caught my eye. I was wondering if this has a name?

>>2
Oh, good to hear! Actually I didn't mind much that the site didn't have many content markings as it is relatively now, so I just marked this in the comments just in case. I think marking it as aimed as adult is good enough to avoid showing it to younger audiences by mistake.

Right now, would it be fine if I mark some "heavy scenes" (graphic stuff) in the comments just in case as CW/TWs (only if it's really present)? or would it be ok to leave it as that? Just wondering !