Champion
About Champion
Grey Wolf is the ski champion of the animals' school. He skips practice and sneers at the others. At the next meet he loses to the better-prepared puppy Bobik and to the badger. At the finish the animals greet the spotted puppy Bobik as the new champion.
Cast & crew
More about Champion
Aleksandr Ivanov directed Isidor Vinokurov's script. It is a color drawn cartoon, released on 29 November 1948. Mikhail Druyan photographed it. Vadim Sinyavsky is the credited voice. The catalog also lists Sergei Martinson. Nikolai Prilutsky is named as sound engineer on the Ukrainian Wikipedia page.
Themes
Reviews
A meeting's minutes, quoted via Russian Wikipedia, recorded the cartoon as a creative failure.
Look
Mikhail Druyan was the cinematographer on this drawn color short.
Notes
- Russian Wikipedia's duration line reads 10 minutes 7 seconds. Another listing says 10 minutes 36 seconds. Wikidata says 10 minutes.
- Minutes of a meeting, as cited on Russian Wikipedia, called the film a creative failure.
- The badger finishes second. Bobik takes the title.
Scenes
- Grey Wolf loses the ski race he expected to win.
- The animals hail the spotted puppy Bobik at the finish.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1948. Чемпион.webm)
