Tale of Tales (1979 film)
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Directed by | Yuri Norstein |
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Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
Starring | Alexander Kalyagin |
Cinematography | Igor Skidan-Bossin |
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Music by |
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Release date | 5 January 1979 |
Running time | 29 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
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Plot
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Yuri Norstein wrote in Iskusstvo Kino magazine that the film is "about simple concepts that give you the strength to live."[8][9]
Music and poetry
In addition to the original score composed by Mikhail Meyerovich, this film makes use of several other pieces of music. Excerpts from works by
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Баю-баюшки-баю, |
Bayu-bayushki-bayu, |
Baby, baby, rock-a-bye |
Many situations in the film actually derive from this lullaby, as well as the character of the little grey wolf. Indeed, the film's original title (rejected by the Soviet censors) was The Little Grey Wolf Will Come.
The name Tale of Tales came from a poem of the same name by Turkish poet
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Стоим над водой - |
Stoim nad vodoy - |
We stand above the water - |
Awards
- 1980—Lille (France) International Festival of Films: Jury Grand Prize
- 1980—Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films: Grand Prize
- 1980—Ottawa (Canada) International Animation Festival: Best Film Longer Than Three Minutes Award
- 1984—Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival: voted by large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time[11]
- 2002—Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films: again voted by large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time
Creators
Director | Yuri Norstein (Ю́рий Норште́йн) |
Writers | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (Людми́ла Петруше́вская)
Yuri Norstein (Юрий Норштейн) |
Art Director | Franchesca Yarbusova (Франче́ска Ярбусова)
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Animator | Yuri Norstein (Ю́рий Норште́йн) |
Camera Operator | Igor Skidan-Bossin (И́горь Скидан-Босин) |
Executive Producer | G. Kovrov (Г. Ковро́в) |
Composer | Mikhail Meyerovich (Михаи́л Мееро́вич) |
Sound Operator | Boris Filchikov (Бори́с Фильчико́в) |
Script Editor | Natalya Abramova (Ната́лья Абрамова) |
Voice Actor | Alexander Kalyagin (Алекса́ндр Каля́гин) as Little Grey Wolf |
Film Editor | Nadezhda Treshcheva (Наде́жда Трещёва) |
In popular culture
Australian electronic duo The Presets paid homage to Tale of Tales in the music video for their song "Girl and the Sea" from their album Beams.[12]
See also
- History of Russian animation
- List of films considered the best
- List of films based on poems
- List of stop-motion films
- Hedgehog in the Fog, another Yuri Norstein film from 1975
- Arthouse animation
References
- ^ Book Review: 'Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey - Animation World Network
- ^ 12 Totally Strange and Underseen Animated Films|PopMatters
- ^ Animating by Candlelight - Animation Obsessive
- ^ a b Byatt, AS (2005-04-16). "Sweet little mystery". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ "Tale of Tales (1979) - Movie Review". 10 October 2016.
- ^ The New Yorker
- ^ Why you should watch 'Tale of Tales', the surreal Soviet animation by Yuri Norstein - Russia Beyond
- ^ Malpas, Anna (April 8, 2005). "Teller of Tales". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on September 10, 2005.
- ^ Norstein, Yuri (February 2003). "Снег на траве". Iskusstvo Kino (in Russian). Archived from the original on January 19, 2004.
- ^ Russian Madison | Новости русскоязычного Мэдисона | Article Archived 2007-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Olympiad of Animation: An Interview With Fini Littlejohn
- ^ Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » Lee Lennox’s “Girl and the Sea”
- Kitson, Clare (2005-06-15). Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey. John Libbey & Co Ltd. ISBN 0-86196-646-5.
- Kitson, Clare (September 2005). Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21838-1.