The Enchanted Boy
| The Enchanted Boy Заколдованный мальчик | |
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 Nils on Martin's back during their adventure across Lapland | |
| Directed by | Vladimir Polkovnikov Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya |
| Written by | Selma Lagerlöf (story) Mikhail Volpin |
| Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Starring | Valentina Sperantova Alexey Konsovskiy Tatyana Strukova Anatoly Kubatsky Erast Garin Georgiy Vitsin |
| Edited by | Nina Mayorova |
| Music by | Vladimir Yurovskiy |
Release date |
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Running time | 46 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Enchanted Boy (Template:Lang-ru, Zakoldovanyy malchik) is a 1955 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film directed by Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. The film is an adaptation of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
The film's image and sound were recently restored by the Russian company Krupnyy Plan, which released it on video and DVD packaged together with Cipollino, a 1961, 40-minute feature film directed by Boris Dyozhkin. No English-subtitled version has been released.
Plot
The naughty boy Nils, who delights in torturing animals, is bewitched by a tomte. Now shrunken to a small size and able to talk to animals, he flies across Lapland on the backs of wild geese. During these dangerous travels he does many noble deeds, and, at the same time, searches for the tomte who would take the spell away.
Creators
| English | Russian | |
|---|---|---|
| Director-producers | Vladimir Polkovnikov Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya |
Владимир Полковников Александра Снежко-Блоцкая |
| Scenario | Mikhail Volpin | Михаил Вольпин |
| Art Directors | Grazhina Brashishkitye Lev Milchin Roman Kachanov |
Гражина Брашишките Лев Мильчин Роман Качанов |
| Artists | Irina Svetlitsa I. Prokofyeva Pyotr Korobayev |
Ирина Светлица И. Прокофьева Пётр Коробаев |
| Animators | Konstantin Chikin Tatyana Taranovich Faina Yepifanova L. Popov Vadim Dolgikh Boris Meyerovich Lev Pozdneyev Renata Mirenkova Igor Podgorskiy Fyodor Khitruk Vladimir Krumin Gennadiy Novozhilov Boris Chani |
Константин Чикин Татьяна Таранович Фаина Епифанова Л. Попов Вадим Долгих Борис Меерович Лев Позднеев Рената Миренкова Игорь Подгорский Фёдор Хитрук Владимир Крумин Геннадий Новожилов Борис Чани |
| Camera Operator | Mikhail Druyan | Михаил Друян |
| Composer | Vladimir Yurovskiy | Владимир Юровский |
| Sound Operator | Nikolai Prilutskiy | Николай Прилуцкий |
| Voice actors | Valentina Sperantova (Nils) Alexey Konsovskiy Tatyana Strukova Anatoly Kubatsky (Gnome) Erast Garin (Martin) Georgiy Vitsin (Rozenbaum) |
Валентина Сперантова Алексей Консовский Татьяна Струкова Анатолий Кубацкий Эраст Гарин Георгий Вицин |
| Editor | Nina Mayorova | Нина Майорова |
Interesting facts
- For strengthening of an image artists gave to the leader of a horde of rats of line (a bang on the head) and manners of behavior of Adolf Hitler (it is remarkable that the actor Sergey Martinson sounding the Rat (in credits is absent) the first on the Soviet screen embodied Hitler in the movie "New Adventures of Shveyk").
- At the episode occurring in "the night city" in Selma Lagerlöf's book the exact scene of action — the city of Karlskrona is specified. The Bronze King and the Wooden Boatswain (it Rozenbom) has real prototypes — a monument to the king Charles XI of Sweden and a wooden statue - "moneybox" at a vegetable marrow.
Video
In the early nineties the animated film is released on videotapes by the film association "Krupnyy Plan", later to the middle of the 1990th — in the collection "The Best Soviet Animated Films" of Studio PRO Video, in the mid-nineties — in the collection of animated films of a film studio "Soyuzmultfilm" a videostudio "Soyuz", since 1996 was reissued by the same studio.
See also
External links
- The Enchanted Boy at IMDb
- «The Enchanted Boy» on YouTube (Official Russian)
- «The Enchanted Boy» on YouTube (Russian with English subtitles)
- The Enchanted Boy at the Animator.ru
- The Enchanted Boy at Myltik.ru Template:Ru icon
- The Enchanted Boy at Krupnyy Plan Template:Ru icon