Another cute article about "The Argonauts" : The Argonauts, or Merry Chronicle of a Dangerous Voyage.

This is a very good article about "The Return from Olympus" : Soviet Hercules in Russian Animated Films.

I think Birubir is "retired" already. The last time I saw a trace of him since 2014. After a few times his account was deleted by YouTube, he probably did not continue his favorite work. But indeed, his group of subtitles was "mental medicine" for me during my university years.

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Yep, I remember when YouTube was limited to 360p. I tried VeeHD because of that, though it was a real pain to upload anything with external subtitles. Don't remember Birubir, though. Is his channel still around?

A fun episode, though a few things always bugged me - particularly that the mice's disguises are far too "real" for it to be believable that they're being controlled from inside.

I think that none of the "Leopolds" are honestly that great (despite some things like the music indeed being quite well done), but this is probably one of the best ones. It feels like the crew had got the whole process down pretty well by this point. It's also the only one with a distinctive theme/setting that its main competitor (Soyuzmultfilm's "Nu, pogodi!"/"Well, Just You Wait!"), for whatever reason, never touched on.

I knew this film since 2009 through one man called usually as Birubir. At that time he was quite known for uploading many Russian films with English subtitles in high definition, although those years when the quality of YouTube' clips were very limited. I downloaded regularly his videos at YouTube, Stagevu and Veehd channels. Of course, the two behind sites are down nowaday.

Puppet is a difficult technique, so I don't like watching most of these films. HOWEVER, The Magic Lake surprised me with its excellent aesthetic. Even the music part, I see similarities with the music in Chinese cinema at that time. This : Laoshan Daoshi

Leopold has the best songs, and they're usually the highlight of this series for me. This episode has great music all around.

In other respects: the character design is nice enough and there are a lot of gags (hearkening back to what Soyuzmultfilm's production was like in the late 1930s), but the execution is kind of sloppy (and I thought so when I watched them back then, too! There were lots of mistakes I would notice). The size of the mice varies hugely again - from being almost as big as Leopold when they're on the motorcycle, to being the size of his feet when they climb up his trousers at the end!

Coincidentally in Canada there is also a music band who is called as «Liu Brothers» (by Chinese fans) or «Lưu Triplets» (by Vietnamese fans). They are Vietnamese-Chinese men but born in Canada. So the original text is called as «劉氏四兄弟» or «劉家兄弟故事».

https://tuoitre.vn/ba-anh-em-trai-dep-ho-luu-den-tphcm-568332.htm
https://vnexpress.net/anh-em-ho-luu-chung-toi-hanh-phuc-vi-co-nhieu-fan-viet-2877519.html