To You, Moscow
About To You, Moscow
A color drawn poster-film for Moscow's 800th year runs from the founding of the city and the Kremlin walls through Ivan III, the Time of Troubles, Minin and Pozharsky, 1812, 1905, the October Revolution, Moscow in the 1930s, the war, and Victory Day. Drawn scenes are cut with newsreel of the city in the 1930s and 1940s, patriotic stamps and postcards, and photographs of Soviet people. Aleksey Konsovsky reads the text.
Cast & crew
More about To You, Moscow
Grigori Lomidze directed. Vladimir Dlugach and Sergey Romanov wrote the script. Konstantin Zotov was the designer, G. Lobachev the composer, and Mikhail Druyan the cameraman. Boris Wolf ran the production. The Russian title is Tebe, Moskva!
Themes
Background
Soyuzmultfilm made it in 1947 for the 800th anniversary of Moscow, dated from 1147.
Look
Mikhail Druyan photographed a film that mixes drawn history with documentary frames of Moscow.
Music
G. Lobachev composed the score. The track uses Dunayevsky, the Pokrass brothers, Lepin, and Alexandrov's 'The Sacred War.' Aleksey Konsovsky narrates.
Notes
- Songs on the track include 'My Dear Capital' by Isaak Dunayevsky and Mark Lisyansky, 'Moscow in May' by the Pokrass brothers and Lebedev-Kumach, 'Hello, Moscow!' by Anatoly Lepin, and 'The Sacred War' by Alexander Alexandrov.
- One shot drops the crown off the Russian coat of arms while the eagles try to hold it in their beaks.
- In the 1940s Moscow passage, a monument to the war is on screen before the film has reached the war.
- Animators include Lamis Bredis, Tatyana Taranovich, and Gennady Filippov.
Scenes
- The crown falls from the coat of arms.
- Newsreel of 1930s Moscow is cut into the drawn history.
- The film ends on Victory Day.