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«A BLUE BIRD»

«SINYAYA PTICA»

(film)

53 min. 6 sec.

SOYUZMULTFILM, 1970

It is a modern satirical fairy tale on the motives of Metterlink’s play. The part of episodes is executed in photocollage tehchnics by the director and artist N.Kotovshchikova (Golovanova). <;br> Executors: the Moscow state chorus and Childrens chorus "The Satellite"; the State symphonic orchestra of cinematography conducting by V.Vasilev. The Boy and the Girl dream that they under orders of the Fairy search for a Blue bird whom the greedy Richman wants to steal with the help of the Cat and Night. Bread, Water and Fire helped the children. When the Boy had woken up he set free a true bird.


directed by	Vassily Livanov
written by	Vassily Livanov
art directors	Max Zherebchevsky, Boris Sadovnikov
artists	Ye. Balabanova, S. Kuznetsov, Stanislav Sokolov, Anna Atamanova, Dmitry Anpilov, L. Chalaya, Alexei Solovjov, Zinaida Zarb
animators	Yana Volskaya, Youry Kuziurin, Valentin Kushnerev, Natalia Bogomolova, Boris Butakov, Joseph Kuroyan, Violetta Kolesnikova, Sergei Dezhkin, Gennady Sokolsky, Oleg Safronov, Kirill Malyantovich, Anatoly Abarenov, Youry Butyrin, S. Zhutovskaya
cameraman	Michael Druyan
executive producer	Lubov Butyrina
music	Gennady Gladkov
sound	George Martynuk
script editor	Arcady Snessarev
voice artists	Youry Yakovlev (Grandfather) , Liya Akhedgakova, Ludmila Gnilova, Vladimir Kenigson, Rina Zelenaya (Grandmother)
cutter	Lidia Kyaksht