Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
About Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
A fascist, drawn as an ugly pig on two legs, tramples Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Yugoslavia, and Greece, and drops bombs on Holland, Belgium, and France. The film uses the name Holland. When the pig steps onto the USSR, the Red Army strikes at once. The cartoon ends by declaring that the enemy will be beaten.
Cast & crew
More about Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Aleksandr Ivanov wrote and directed this drawn poster-film. Soyuzmultfilm finished it on July 18, 1941, in the first weeks after the German invasion. S. Rensky was the sound recordist. It runs three minutes.
Themes
Background
It was made in the opening weeks of the Great Patriotic War, after German forces had already taken the countries the pig is shown crushing.
Making
The short was completed on July 18, 1941, less than a month after the invasion began on June 22.
Music
The track uses the fifth movement of Sergei Prokofiev's cantata Alexander Nevsky, "The Battle on the Ice," and the "March of the Soviet Tankmen," sung by Pyotr Kirichek with the Alexandrov Ensemble.
Preservation
The short survives and is in the public domain in Russia.
Notes
- The Russian title is Не топтать фашистскому сапогу нашей родины. A Russian Wikipedia alternate title is Fascist Boot on Our Homeland.
- The film calls the Netherlands "Holland.
- It is a film-plakat, a poster in motion, not a story cartoon.
- Russian Wikipedia lists it as public domain because it was released more than seventy years ago.
Scenes
- The pig stomps across Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Yugoslavia, and Greece.
- Bombs fall on Holland, Belgium, and France.
- The Red Army hits the figure the moment it crosses onto Soviet ground.
