The Battle of Kerzhenets
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| Directed by | Yuriy Norshteyn Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Written by | Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| Music by | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Release date(s) | 1971 (USSR) |
| Running time | 10 min 12 sec |
| Country | USSR |
| Language | Russian |
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The Battle of Kerzhenets (Russian: Се́ча при Ке́рженце; tr.:Secha pri Kerzhentse) is a 1971 Soviet animated film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Yuriy Norshteyn. The film is set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov and uses Russian frescoes and paintings from the 14th-16th centuries (which are animated using 2-dimensional stop motion animation).
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[edit] Plot
The story is based on the legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (made into a 4-act opera by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1907), which disappears under the waters of a lake to escape an attack by the Tatars (Russia was under the Mongol-Tatar yoke for a period of three centuries in the Middle Ages). The film itself follows the legend only loosely, however, and its highpoint is a battle between the Russian soldiers and the Tatar hordes, symbolizing a clash of cultures (the Virgin Mary appears early in the film, in effect watching over the Russian side of the battle).
[edit] Awards
- 1971—Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Prize for Best Animated Film
- 1972—Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films: Grand Prize
- 1972—Tbilissi: Prize for Best Animated Film
- 1972—Bombay Film Festival: "Diplom"
[edit] Creators
| Directors | Yuriy Norshteyn (Юрий Норштейн) Ivan Ivanov-Vano (Иван Иванов-Вано) |
| Writer | Ivan Ivanov-Vano (Иван Иванов-Вано) |
| Art Directors | Marina Sokolova (Марина Соколова) Arkadiy Tyurin (Аркадий Тюрин) |
| Animators | Yuriy Norshteyn (Юрий Норштейн) Aleksandr Rozhkov (Александр Рожков) Boris Saavin (Борис Савин) Vyacheslav Shilobreyev (Вячеслав Шилобреев) |
| Camera Operator | Vladimir Saruhanov (Владимир Саруханов) |
| Composer | Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков) |
| Sound Operator | Boris Filchikov (Борис Фильчиков) |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Battle of Kerzhenets at the Internet Movie Database
- Animator.ru profile of the film (Russian and English)
| Works of Yuriy Norshteyn |
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Director/Co-director: 25th October, the First Day (1968) • The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971) • The Fox and the Hare (1973) • The Heron and the Crane (1974) • Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) • Tale of Tales (1979) • Winter Days (2003, segment) • The Overcoat (????) |
| Animator (selected films): Lefty (1964) • Go There, Don't Know Where (1966) • Times of the Year (1969) • Cheburashka (1972) • Shapoklyak (1974) • 38 Parrots (1976) • Autumn (1982) • The Book of the Dead (2005) |
