A Cuckoo and a Blackbird
About A Cuckoo and a Blackbird
A cuckoo will not sit on her eggs and has no family of her own. Starlings set out to show her that a family is what you lean on in trouble and in good times. The Russian title, Kukushka i skvorets, names a starling, not a blackbird.
Cast & crew
More about A Cuckoo and a Blackbird
Leonid Amalrik and Vladimir Polkovnikov directed. Sergei Mikhalkov wrote the script. Nikolay Voinov was the cameraman. Yury Nikolsky wrote the music. Wikidata times the short at 10 minutes.
Themes
Making
Soyuzmultfilm put two directors on a one-reel argument between a cuckoo and starlings, with Mikhalkov's script and Nikolsky's music.
Look
Nikolay Voinov photographed the drawn birds.
Music
Yury Nikolsky composed the score.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons under the Russian title.
Notes
- The English release title says blackbird. The film and the Russian title are about a starling.
- Mikhalkov, the children's poet, supplied the script. Chukovsky is not the author of this one.
- Amalrik and Polkovnikov also shared the direction of Limpopo the same decade.
- A Commons file uses the Russian title.
Scenes
- The cuckoo leaves the eggs and keeps no household.
- The starlings make the case that a family is useful in both trouble and luck.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1949. Кукушка и скворец.webm)
