The Heart of the Brave
About The Heart of the Brave
In the taiga, brothers Indiga and Solomdiga meet a tiger while hunting a deer. Indiga runs. The tiger drives Solomdiga onto a sheer cliff. Their mother tells Indiga he has a hare's heart and sends him back: only courage will save his brother. On the way he faces swamp king Boko, the stone man Kakzamu, and a river of fire. He kills the tiger and frees Solomdiga. At home his mother gives him his father's spear and says he now has the heart of a brave man.
Cast & crew
More about The Heart of the Brave
Boris Dyozhkin and Gennady Filippov directed Oleg Leonidov's script from Dmitry Nagishkin's Seven Fears, drawn from an Udege folktale. Mikhail Druyan photographed the drawings.
Themes
Background
A 1951 Soyuzmultfilm short taken from an Udege story by way of Dmitry Nagishkin.
Making
Dyozhkin and Filippov split the direction of the Nagishkin tale at Soyuzmultfilm.
Look
Mikhail Druyan photographed the drawn taiga, the cliff, and the river of fire.
Music
Karen Khachaturian wrote the score.
Preservation
The short survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Voice credits in catalogs include Leonid Pirogov, Nina Zorskaya, Anatoly Shchukin, Varvara Myasnikova, Nikolai Gorlov, and Yuri Lyubimov.
- The Russian title is Сердце храбреца.
- Wikimultia gives the length as 18 minutes.
Awards
- Diploma, 5th Venice International Film Festival (1953)
Scenes
- The tiger drives Solomdiga onto the cliff while Indiga runs.
- Indiga crosses the river of fire.
- The mother hands him his father's spear.
Influenced by
- Dmitry Nagishkin's Seven Fears
- Udege folktale
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1951. Сердце Храбреца.webm)
Quotes
You have a hare's heart. Go find your brother. Only courage will save him.
You are fit to carry it. Now you have a true brave heart.
