Geese-Swans

1949 Animation 20 minutes Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano

About Geese-Swans

A girl leaves her little brother, and the geese-swans carry him off to Baba Yaga. She goes into the dark forest after him. Things she has helped on the way show her the road back.

Cast & crew

More about Geese-Swans

Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya directed and wrote it from the Russian tale The Magic Swan Geese. Soyuzmultfilm, 1949.

Themes

a sister who goes after her brother
Baba Yaga
help from the things she spared
geese-swans
brother
forest
Soyuzmultfilm
folk tale

Making

Ivanov-Vano and Snezhko-Blotskaya drew the folk tale at Soyuzmultfilm.

Look

Nikolay Voinov photographed the drawn film.

Music

Yury Nikolsky wrote the music.

Notes

The source tale is the one in which a girl chases the swan-geese who have taken her brother to Baba Yaga.

Scenes

The geese-swans take the little brother.
The girl follows them into the forest to Baba Yaga.

Influenced by

The Russian folk tale The Magic Swan Geese

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1949. Гуси-лебеди.webm)