Fedia Zaitsev
About Fedia Zaitsev
On the first day of school, third-grader Fedya Zaitsev finds the classroom freshly whitewashed and draws a little man on the wall to the rhyme "dot, dot, comma." Afraid of punishment, he shakes his chalky hand with a classmate and lets that boy take the blame. He cannot sleep. The bed throws him onto the floor, and Timur on the cover of Gaidar's book tells him the story was not written for him. Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg directed.
Cast & crew
More about Fedia Zaitsev
Nikolai Erdman and Mikhail Volpin wrote it, Nikolay Voinov photographed it, and Viktor Oransky composed the score. A Russian reference page dates the premiere January 2, 1948, and gives 20 minutes 48 seconds. Wikidata lists 20 minutes.
Themes
Look
Nikolay Voinov photographed the Soyuzmultfilm short.
Music
Viktor Oransky is the composer.
Notes
- The drawing song is "Точка, точка, запятая.
- The blamed child is another third-grader, not a teacher.
- Animators named on one Russian page include Boris Dyozhkin and Roman Kachanov.
- Nikolai Prilutsky is credited there as sound recordist.
Scenes
- Fedya shakes chalk onto a classmate's hand so the drawing is blamed on him.
- The bed dumps him on the floor, and the Timur on the book cover refuses him.
Influenced by
- Arkady Gaidar's Timur and His Team, quoted inside the dream
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1948. Федя Зайцев.webm)
