The New Gulliver
About The New Gulliver
Petya, a Soviet Pioneer, falls asleep over Gulliver's Travels and dreams he is Gulliver in a Lilliput where a tiny king and the rich live off the workers. He sides with the workers. The dream is played with puppets. Vladimir Konstantinov, a boy, plays Petya. It was his only film. He was killed near Tallinn in 1944.
Cast & crew
More about The New Gulliver
Aleksandr Ptushko directed and wrote it with Grigori Roshal. Nikolai Renkov and Ivan Shkarenkov photographed. Lev Shvarts composed. Mosfilm released it on March 25, 1935. The listed length is 73 minutes. Live action opens and closes the picture. The Lilliput scenes are stop-motion puppets. Ptushko received a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan. The Russian title is Новый Гулливер.
Themes
Look
Nikolai Renkov and Ivan Shkarenkov shot the live-action frame. The Lilliputians are stop-motion puppets.
Technique
Stop-motion puppets carry almost the whole dream, with live action only at the start and the end.
Music
Lev Shvarts composed the score.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Konstantinov was born in 1920. This is the only role on his record.
- The puppet work runs through almost the whole dream.
- Ivan Yudin, Ivan Bobrov, and Fyodor Brest are billed.
- The Milan credit is a special prize, not a competition win named on the English article.
Awards
- Special prize, International Cinema Festival, Milan
Scenes
- Petya sleeps over the book and wakes inside Lilliput.
- The puppet court gives way to the workers he joins.
Influenced by
- Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
