Story of movie Tale Of Tales 1979 Film : Tale of Tales (Russian: ?????? ??????, Skazka skazok) is a 1979 Soviet/Russian animated film directed by Yuri Norstein and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. It has won numerous awards, has been acclaimed by critics and other animators, and has received the title of greatest animated film of all time in various polls. It has been the subject of a 2005 book by Clare Kitson titled Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey.
| Tale of Tales | |
|---|---|
Little Grey Wolf from Tale of Tales | |
| Directed by | Yuri Norstein |
| Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Written by | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Yuri Norstein |
| Starring | Alexander Kalyagin |
| Music by | Mikhail Meyerovich Johann Sebastian Bach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Cinematography | Igor Skidan-Bossin |
| Edited by | Nadezhda Treshcheva Natalya Abramova |
Release date | 5 January 1979 |
Running time | 29 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Screenplay
Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror , attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of one thing with another, which means that any attempt to put memory on film cannot be told like a conventional narrative. The film is thus made up of a series of related sequences whose scenes are interspersed between each other. One of the primary themes involves war, with particular emphasis on the enormous losses the Soviet Union suffered on the Eastern Front during World War II. Several recurring characters and their interactions make up a large part of the film, such as the poet, the little girl and the bull, the little boy and the crows, the dancers and the soldiers, and especially the little grey wolf (Russian: ?????????? ???????, syeryenkiy volchok). Another symbol connecting nearly all of these different themes are green apples (which may symbolize life, hope, or potential). Yuri Norstein wrote in Iskusstvo Kino magazine that the film is "about simple concepts that give you the strength to live."
In addition to the original score composed by Mikhail Meyerovich, this film makes use of several other pieces of music. Excerpts from works by Bach (notably the E flat minor Prelude BWV 853 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier)) and Mozart (the Andante second movement from Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, K41) are used, and the World War II era tango Weary Sun, written by Jerzy Petersburski, features prominently. However, the most important musical inspiration is the following traditional Russian lullaby, which is included in the film in both instrumental and vocal form.
| Russian | Transliteration | English translation |
|---|---|---|
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???-??????-???, |
Bayu-bayushki-bayu, |
Baby, baby, rock-a-bye |
Many situations in the film actually derive from this lullaby, as well as the character of the little grey wolf. Indeed, the film's original title (rejected by the Soviet censors) was The Little Grey Wolf Will Come.
The name Tale of Tales came from a poem of the same name by Turkish poet Naz?m Hikmet that Norstein loved since 1962.
| Russian | Transliteration | English translation |
|---|---|---|
|
????? ??? ????? - |
Stoim nad vodoy - |
We stand above the water - |
- 1980—Lille (France) International Festival of Films: Jury Grand Prize
- 1980—Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films: Grand Prize
- 1980—Ottawa (Canada) International Animation Festival: Best Film Longer Than Three Minutes Award
- 1984—Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival: voted by large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time
- 2002—Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films: again voted by large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time
| Director | Yuri Norstein (????? ?????????) |
| Writers | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (???????? ?????????????)
Yuri Norstein (???? ????????) |
| Art Director | Franchesca Yarbusova (?????????? ????????) |
| Animator | Yuri Norstein (????? ?????????) |
| Camera Operator | Igor Skidan-Bossin (?????? ??????-?????) |
| Executive Producer | G. Kovrov (?. ???????) |
| Composer | Mikhail Meyerovich (??????? ?????????) |
| Sound Operator | Boris Filchikov (?????? ??????????) |
| Script Editor | Natalya Abramova (???????? ????????) |
| Voice Actor | Alexander Kalyagin (?????????? ????????) as Little Grey Wolf |
| Film Editor | Nadezhda Treshcheva (???????? ???????) |
The Australian electronic duo The Presets paid homage to Tale of Tales in the video of their song "Girl and the Sea" from their first album Beams.
- History of Russian animation
- Films that have been considered the greatest ever
- List of films based on poems
- List of stop-motion films
- Hedgehog in the Fog, another Yuri Norstein film from 1975
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