The Soldier's Tale
About The Soldier's Tale
A soldier just out of service gives his small dinner to a beggar. The old man hands him a magic bag that will hold anything he wishes. In the thrice-ninth kingdom he uses a soldier's trick to stuff into the bag the unclean spirits who have taken over the palace. The greedy tsar will not pay the promised half of the kingdom and turns the captives loose, so the soldier has to drive the shapeshifters back in.
Cast & crew
More about The Soldier's Tale
Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg directed the drawn short from a script they wrote with Zinovy Kalik, using Russian folk tales. Anatoly Sazonov was the designer. Mikhail Yanshin, the soldier's voice, is also credited as director-consultant. Boris Wolf was the film's director of production.
Themes
Look
Nikolay Voinov and Elena Petrova photographed the cel animation.
Music
Viktor Oransky wrote the score.
Notes
- Mikhail Yanshin voices the soldier, Vladimir Gotovtsev the tsar, Georgi Millyar the beggar, and A. Fadeeva a girl.
- Nikolay Voinov and Elena Petrova were the cameramen. Nikolai Prilutsky recorded the sound.
- Animators on the credits include Boris Dyozhkin, Gennady Filippov, Lamis Bredis, Boris Titov, and Dmitry Belov.
- The Russian title is Skazka o soldate.
Scenes
- The soldier gives his dinner to the beggar and receives the bag.
- He packs the palace spirits into the bag.
- The tsar frees them, and the soldier has to catch them again.
Influenced by
- Russian folk tales
