Sarmiko
About Sarmiko
Chukchi boy Sarmiko comes back from a walrus hunt. His grandfather has heard on the radio that a plane is flying in to the winterers, and that the ice on the bay is bad. Sarmiko skis out to meet the plane, which has already landed with books and paints for the school. Lena, the winterer's daughter, rides a reindeer across the bay to bring Sarmiko a book. The ice splits. Sarmiko sets Lena on the reindeer and sends her toward shore, and the floe carries him out to sea. Her father radios, a plane finds the boy, and back at school he draws what happened.
Cast & crew
More about Sarmiko
Olga Khodataeva and Yevgeny Raykovsky directed Ksenia Shneider's script at Soyuzmultfilm in color, in two parts. Production designer P. Nosov. Cameramen A. Astafyev and N. Sokolova.
Themes
Background
A 1952 Soyuzmultfilm short set among Chukchi hunters and a Soviet wintering station.
Making
Khodataeva, who had co-directed Samoyed Boy in 1928, returned to a northern child-on-the-ice story with Raykovsky.
Look
A. Astafyev and N. Sokolova photographed the color drawings.
Music
Anatoly Alexandrov wrote the score.
Preservation
Studio AS restored the picture and added a new soundtrack in 2001. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian title is Сармико.
- Catalog voice credits include Vladimir Feoktistov, Nadezhda Ukolova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Vsevolod Sanayev, and Sergei Stolyarov.
- In 2001, Studio AS restored the cartoon and recorded a new voice track.
- It received the prize for best animated film at the 7th Karlovy Vary festival in 1952.
Awards
- Best animated film, 7th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1952)
Scenes
- The ice opens between Lena's reindeer and the shore.
- Sarmiko puts Lena on the deer and stays on the floe.
- He shows the school the drawings of the rescue.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1952. Сармико.webm)
