A Winter Tale
About A Winter Tale
A hard winter is almost over, and the New Year is close. The forest animals decide to meet it together. Ded Moroz, Snegurochka, and a snowman help them. They gather at a New Year tree for songs and dances. Russian sources note that the score uses music by Tchaikovsky.
Cast & crew
More about A Winter Tale
Ivan Ivanov-Vano directed and wrote the film with Evgeny Shvarts. Yury Nikolsky composed the score. Nikolay Voinov and Elena Petrova are credited as cameramen. It is a drawn cartoon, about 11 minutes, released in 1945 while the war was still the studio's condition of work. Sound was recorded by S. Rensky.
Themes
Background
It was finished in the last year of the war, a short holiday film from a studio that had spent the previous years on wartime subjects.
Making
Soyuzmultfilm put a New Year short into the 1945 schedule, with a playwright, Evgeny Shvarts, sharing the script with the director. The picture is songs and dances around one tree.
Look
Nikolay Voinov and Elena Petrova photographed the drawings. The film is recorded as the last Soviet cartoon made with the three-color process.
Technique
It was made in the three-color process, and Russian notes call it the last Soviet cartoon shot that way.
Music
Yury Nikolsky wrote the score. The cartoon also uses music by Tchaikovsky under the dances at the tree.
Preservation
A complete transfer is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian title is Зимняя сказка.
- Animators on the film include Boris Dyozhkin, Tatyana Fyodorova, Gennady Filippov, and Roman Davydov.
- Ded Moroz arrives with Snegurochka and a snowman, not as a silent visitor. The New Year is danced.
- Wikimultia calls it the last Soviet cartoon shot by the three-color method.
Scenes
- The animals meet Ded Moroz, Snegurochka, and the snowman in the snow.
- The New Year party is a run of dances around the tree.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1945. Зимняя сказка.webm)
