Friends-Comrades

1951 AnimationFamily 20 minutes Directed by Viktor Gromov

About Friends-Comrades

In a children's park, Nakhimov Chizhov, Suvorov Pyzhov, and the apprentice Ryzhov meet the schoolgirl Zina Zhukova. She talks of herself as a dancer and calls the boys crooks. After they watch a children's performance, her manner toward them changes.

Cast & crew

More about Friends-Comrades

Viktor Gromov directed. Lev Kassil wrote the script. Aleksei Muravlyov wrote the music. Soyuzmultfilm released the drawn short in 1951. The Russian title is Друзья-товарищи. Nadezhda Ukolova, Lyudmila Pirogova, Vladimir Feoktistov, Kolya Ustinov, and Tolya Kerbi are billed.

Themes

  • Three boys and a would-be dancer
  • A snub that does not last
  • Zina Zhukova
  • children's park
  • dancer
  • Soyuzmultfilm
  • Kassil

Music

Aleksei Muravlyov composed the score.

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • The three boys' names pair naval and military surnames with the rhyme Chizhov, Pyzhov, Ryzhov.
  • Zina is a schoolgirl who wants to dance, not a professional.
  • Kassil, a children's writer, did the script.
  • The Russian title is Друзья-товарищи.

Scenes

  • Zina calls the three boys crooks, then watches the children's show with them.