Left-Hander (1964 film)

Left-Hander
Left-Hander
Directed by	Ivan Ivanov-Vano; Vladimir Danilevich
Written by	Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Narrated by	Dmitriy Zhuravlyov
Edited by	Nina Mayorova
Music by	Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Release date	July 22, 1964 (USSR);
Running time	42 min. 23 sec.
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

Left-Hander (Russian: Левша́, translit. Levsha) is a 1964 feature-length cutout-animated film from the Soviet Union. The film is based on the story of the same name by the 19th century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov. It was directed by the "Patriarch of Soviet animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano, at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The score was performed by the Government Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Grigori Gamburg.

Plot

The screen version of the narration of Nikolay Leskov about the surprising master Lefty who grounded a "aglitskaya" (English) steel flea.

Creators

	English	Russian
Director-producer	Ivan Ivanov-Vano	Иван Иванов-Вано
Second Director (First Assistant)	Vladimir Danilevich	Владимир Данилевич
Scenario	Ivan Ivanov-Vano	Иван Иванов-Вано
Art Directors	Arkadiy Tyurin Anatoliy Kuritsyn Marina Sokolova	Аркадий Тюрин Анатолий Курицын Марина Соколова
Artists	Vladimir Alisov G. Zuykova V. Rodzhero Vladimir Sobolev A. Volkov G. Nevzorova Aleksandr Gorbachyov	Владимир Алисов Г. Зуйкова В. Роджеро Владимир Соболев А. Волков Г. Невзорова Александр Горбачёв
Animators	Galina Zolotovskaya Yuriy Norshteyn Lev Zhdanov Kirill Malyantovich Mikhail Botov	Галина Золотовская Юрий Норштейн Лев Жданов Кирилл Малянтович Михаил Ботов
Camera Operator	Joseph Golomb	Иосиф Голомб
Executive Producer	Nathan Bitman	Натан Битман
Composer	Aleksandr Aleksandrov	Александр Александров
Sound Operator	Boris Filchikov	Борис Фильчиков
Script Editor	Natalya Abramova	Наталья Абрамова
Puppets and decorations	Vladimir Abbakumov N. Budylova Vera Cherkinskaya Svetlana Znamenskaya Liliana Lyutinskaya Y. Benkevich Oleg Masainov M. Spasskaya	Владимир Аббакумов Н. Будылова Вера Черкинская Светлана Знаменская Лилиана Лютинская Ю. Бенкевич Олег Масаинов М. Спасская
Narrator	Dmitriy Zhuravlyov	Дмитрий Журавлёв
Editor	Nina Mayorova	Нина Майорова

Awards

1964 — the Honourable diploma at the VII International film festival short and documentaries in Leipzig.

Video

In 2008 was issued together with animated films "The Humpbacked Horse" 1947 and 1975 on DVD the Krupnyy Plan company.

Creation history

Ivanov-Vano bore an animated film plan about the gifted master in Leskov's story about 30 years. Over time he arrived at idea that the originality of the narration of Leskov can be transferred, having created a graphic row with a support on an art system of the Russian popular print with "its characteristic generality of forms, specific expressiveness". For animation the idea to show evolution of character of the main character was innovative. Art directors at creation of the movie were inspired by ancient engravings (action in the imperial palace), English engravings (the foreign line), and the Tula episodes were solved in the stylistics of a popular print which is organically uniting all three lines. According to the proposal of the animator of "Lefty" Yury Norstein, the movie became in equipment of a turn.

References

^ Peter Rollberg - Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema 0810862689 2008- Page 306 "Some of Ivanov-Vano' s more daring experiments caused controversy, ... Other films: The Three Musketeers (Tri mushketera, 1938); The Stolen Sun (Kradenoe solntse, 1944); Left-Hander (Levsha, 1964); The Seasons (Vremena goda, 1969);
^ Soviet Film - Volumes 332-343 - Page 126 1985 This may seem to be a trivial detail in the life of the grand old man of Soviet animated cartoons Ivan Ivanov-Vano. ... Ivanov-Vano came up with Levsha (The Left-Handed Man), a full-length cartoon based on a famous story by Nikolai Leskov.
^ Prominent Personalities in the USSR. - Page 224 1968 IVANOV-VANO, Ivan Petrovich, . "V nekotorom tsarstve" (In Some Kingdom) (1958); "Priklyucheniya Buratino" (Bura- tino's Adventures); "Levsha" (The Hander) (1964), etc.; ..."

External links

Lefty at the Animator.ru
Lefty at IMDb
«Lefty» on YouTube (Official Russian)
Lefty at myltik.ru (in Russian)

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[1] Peter Rollberg - Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema 0810862689 2008- Page 306 "Some of Ivanov-Vano' s more daring experiments caused controversy, ... Other films: The Three Musketeers (Tri mushketera, 1938); The Stolen Sun (Kradenoe solntse, 1944); Left-Hander (Levsha, 1964); The Seasons (Vremena goda, 1969);

[2] Soviet Film - Volumes 332-343 - Page 126 1985 This may seem to be a trivial detail in the life of the grand old man of Soviet animated cartoons Ivan Ivanov-Vano. ... Ivanov-Vano came up with Levsha (The Left-Handed Man), a full-length cartoon based on a famous story by Nikolai Leskov.

[3] Prominent Personalities in the USSR. - Page 224 1968 IVANOV-VANO, Ivan Petrovich, . "V nekotorom tsarstve" (In Some Kingdom) (1958); "Priklyucheniya Buratino" (Bura- tino's Adventures); "Levsha" (The Hander) (1964), etc.; ..."

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v t e Soyuzmultfilm feature films
1940s–1950s	The Lost Letter (1945) The Humpbacked Horse (1947) The Night Before Christmas (1951) The Scarlet Flower (1952) The Snow Maiden (1952) The Enchanted Boy (1955) The Twelve Months (1956) The Snow Queen (1957) Beloved Beauty (1958) The Adventures of Buratino (1959)
1960s–1970s	It Was I Who Drew the Little Man (1960) The Key (1961) The Wild Swans (1962) Left‐Hander (1964) Go There, Don't Know Where (1966) The Blue Bird (1970) Adventures of Mowgli (1973)
1980s–1990s	The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) Laughter and Grief by the White Sea (1987) The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988)
2010s	Hoffmaniada (2018)
Co-productions	I Was a Satellite of the Sun (1959) Twelve Months (1980) Maria, Mirabela (1981) Swan Lake (1981) The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (1987) The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands (2018)

v t e Works of Yuri Norstein
Director/Co-director	25th October, the First Day (1968) The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971) The Fox and the Hare (1973) The Heron and the Crane (1974) Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) Tale of Tales (1979) Winter Days (2003, segment) The Overcoat (TBA)
Animator (selected films)	Left-Hander (1964) Go There, Don't Know Where (1966) Times of the Year (1969) Cheburashka (1971) Shapoklyak (1974) 38 Parrots (1976) Autumn (1982) The Book of the Dead (2005)