The High Hill

Name: The High Hill
Director: Leonid Amalrik
Genre: Animation
Released: 1951
Duration: 20 min

1951 Animation 20 minutes Directed by Leonid Amalrik

About The High Hill

The boastful sparrow Chik quarrels with the other birds, so he and his wife Chirika have to nest alone. They try a scarecrow's hat, and a red kitten drives them off. A swallow on the High Hill tells them the rule there is one for all and all for one. Chik refuses. They build on a village roof. The cat wrecks the nest. Chik then agrees to move to the High Hill, and when the cat comes for the chicks the flock drives it off.

Cast & crew

Leonid Amalrik Director

More about The High Hill

Leonid Amalrik and Vladimir Polkovnikov directed. Grigori Koltunov wrote a verse screenplay from Vitaly Bianki's tale Red Hill. A drawn Soyuzmultfilm short, released in 1951. The dialogue is in verse; Bianki's tale is prose.

Themes

a sparrow who will not share a hill
a nest wrecked by a cat
the flock that drives the cat off
sparrow
High Hill
cat
swallow
Soyuzmultfilm
Bianki

Making

Amalrik and Polkovnikov turned Bianki's prose into rhymed scenes.

Look

Mikhail Druyan photographed it. Nikolai Prilutsky was sound director.

Notes

The sparrows are named Chik and Chirika.
The swallow's line is that on the High Hill it is one for all and all for one.
Bianki's source tale is Krasnaya gorka, Red Hill.

Scenes

Chik and Chirika try to nest in a scarecrow's hat.
The birds on the High Hill chase the cat away from the chicks.

Influenced by

Vitaly Bianki's tale Red Hill (Krasnaya gorka)

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1951. Высокая горка.webm)