Film

Tale of a Toy

1984 · 9m · Animation

IMDb

6.4

Made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Germans. The film won second prize at the XXII Leipzig Festival of Films for Children. In a German concentration camp Russian prisoners fashion a Don Quixote doll from a bit of metal. It becomes their symbol of hope. The lyrical film is bracketed with references to the Spanish Civil War, which led to decades of authoritarian rule by Generalissimo Franco, and the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile which toppled the socialist, pro-Soviet regime of Salvadore Allende. ('Clear skies' was the codeword which launched Francos 1936 coup, supported by the fascist governments of Italy and Germany and opposed by the USSR and France).

• Boris AblyninDirector
• Aleksandra SviridovaWriter
• Grigoriy KhmaraProducer
• Aleksandr VikhanskiyDirector of Photography
• Viktor BabushkinOriginal Music Composer
• Nadezhda TreshchyovaEditor

Release date

January 1, 1984

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

9m

Genres

Animation