The Humpbacked Horse
About The Humpbacked Horse
A father sends his sons Danila, Gavrila, and Ivanushka to watch the fields. A white horse lets Ivanushka mount, speaks, and promises him three horses, then throws him and vanishes. The brothers take two of the horses. The third, a small humpbacked horse they ignore, goes with Ivan after them. At a town fair the tsar wants to buy the stolen pair. The catalog story also has the tsar kidnap the woman Ivan loves, whom he then has to recover with the little horse.
Cast & crew
More about The Humpbacked Horse
Alexander Rou directed this live-action fairy tale, not a cartoon. Vladimir Shveitser wrote it from Pyotr Yershov's poem. Kinoafisha dates the Soviet opening to July 31, 1941. The Russian title is Конёк-Горбунок.
Themes
Look
Bentsion Monastyrsky and Georgy Reysgof photographed it.
Music
Leonid Polovinkin wrote the music.
Notes
- Pyotr Aleynikov plays Ivanushka. Georgy Vinogradov sings for him. Marina Kovalyova plays Zarya-Zaryanitsa. Veniamin Gut plays King Afron.
- Georgy Millyar plays Chikhir. Aleksandr Zhukov plays Danila. Nikolay Gorlov plays Gavrila.
- A U.S. date of September 20, 1941, is listed by Kinoafisha.
Influenced by
- Pyotr Yershov's The Little Humpbacked Horse
