The Wild Swans (film)

The Wild Swans
The Crow explains to Elisa that there is a way to reverse her brother's "swan" curse.
Directed by	Vera Tsekhanovskaya Mikhail Tsekhanovsky
Written by	Yevgeniy Ryss Leonid Trauberg Mikhail Volpin (lyrics)
Based on	The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen
Starring	Sergei Martinson K. Ustyugov Anatoliy Shchukin Askold Besedin V. Tumanova Erast Garin Viktor Sergachev Yelena Ponsova R. Chumak
Music by	Aleksandr Varlamov
Edited by	V. Tutubiner
Release dates	1962 (USSR)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Wild Swans (Russian: Дикие лебеди, Dikiye lebedi) is a 1962 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by the husband-and-wife team of Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya. Unusual for Soviet films of this period, and especially for animated films, it was filmed in widescreen. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.

Plot

The film is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.

Eleven princes charming are turned by the angry stepmother in wild swans. Their sister Elisa is ready on everything to remove from them a paternoster. That brothers again became people, it needs to weave them chain armors from a nettle. But if for operating time she says though the word, all work will be vain. To rescue brothers, Elisa passes through heartrending experiences and nearly perishes on a fire, as the witch.

Home video releases

DVD: Золотая коллекция любимых мультфильмов - 4. PAL, no subtitles. Contains: The Wild Swans, Argonauts (20 min), The Boatswain and the Parrot (series 1-4, 38 min), A Blue Puppy (20 min)
VHS and MPEG-4 versions containing only the film.

Creators

	English	Russian
Scriptwriters	Evgeny Ryss Leonid Trauberg	Евгений Рысс Леонид Трауберг
The text of songs	Mikhail Volpin	Михаил Вольпин
Production directors	Mikhail and Vera Tsekhanovskiyes	Михаил и Вера Цехановские
Art directors	Nathan Lerner Max Zherebchevsky	Натан Лернер Макс Жеребчевский
Artists	Boris Korneev Dmitry Anpilov	Борис Корнеев Дмитрий Анпилов
The composer	Alexander Vladimirovich Varlamov	Александр Варламов
The operator	Elena Petrova	Елена Петрова
The assistant to the operator	Svetlana Kashcheeva	Светлана Кащеева
The sound technician	Boris Filchikov	Борис Фильчиков
Animators:	Elena Hludova Victor Shevkov Valentin Kushneryov Renata Mirenkova Lidiya Reztsova N. Chernova Faina Yepifanova Konstantin Chikin Tatyana Taranovich Vladimir Zarubin Boris Butakov Ivan Davydov Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin Tatyana Pomerantseva O. Sysoyeva L. Rybchevskaya N. Avstriyskaya E. Vershinina K. Malyshev V. Maksimovich V. Rogov Eraste Meladze	Елена Хлудова Виктор Шевков Валентин Кушнерёв Рената Миренкова Лидия Резцова Н. Чернова Фаина Епифанова Константин Чикин Татьяна Таранович Владимир Зарубин Борис Бутаков Иван Давыдов Вячеслав Котёночкин Татьяна Померанцева О. Сысоева Л. Рыбчевская Н. Австрийская Е. Вершинина К. Малышев В. Максимович В. Рогов Эраст Меладзе
Assistants to the director	Lidiya Nikitina Elena Turanova	Лидия Никитина Елена Туранова
The assistant on installation	V. Turubiner	В. Турубинер
The editor	Z. Pavlova	З. Павлова
Roly sounded:	Valentina Tumanova — Elisa Elena Ponsova — the queen, the stepmother sorcerer / the kind old woman / crow Victor Sergachyov — the young king (speech) Erast Garin — the bishop Sergey Martinson — the king's salesman Anatoly Schukin — the king Robert Chumak — an episode Konstantin Ustyugov — an episode Askold Besedin — from the author / the young king (vocal)	Валентина Туманова — Элиза Елена Понсова — королева, мачеха-колдунья/добрая старушка/ворона Виктор Сергачёв — молодой король (речь) Эраст Гарин — епископ Сергей Мартинсон — приказчик короля Анатолий Щукин — король Роберт Чумак — эпизод Константин Устюгов — эпизод Аскольд Беседин — от автора/молодой король (вокал)
The production manager	G. Kruglikov	Г. Кругликов

Art features

The film expert Pyotr Bagrov in the analysis of the Soviet "andersen's" filmography puts the animated film "Wild Swans" on a special place, separating its literary basis from other fairy tales of Andersen: "It, in general, and not the fairy tale. It is an ancient Danish legend". Respectively, other, in comparison with other animated screen versions, appeared also a graphic manner in which the tape is created: "The extended, "Gothic" people and rocks — and at the same time the plane, medieval and primitive image". Bagrov also notes typical for game cinema, but rare in animation parallel installation.

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