Subtle coloring and an impressionistic approach to landscape distinguish this patriotic animated short set to music. After a flourishing Soviet hamlet is destroyed by Nazi planes, the sole survivor is confronted by a hulking Nazi commando in a tank. The military man tries to cajole the young violinist into repeating a jaunty harmonica melody at gunpoint but the boy strikes up a noble song of resistance instead. Stepantsev's film may romance the idea of martyrdom but it does so with a gravity not often found in similar films.
Boris Stepantsev
Director
Yuri Yakovlev
Writer
Возвращение блудного попугая (выпуск 1)75%
Sing: Thriller71%
Сон смешного человека67%
Зима в Простоквашино76%
The House70%
Once Upon a Studio82%
Hi Stranger65%
Каникулы в Простоквашино74%
Sea Scouts63%
Трое из Простоквашино73%
Пластилиновая ворона72%
Minions & More Volume 170%
Two Little Indians68%
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness72%
Arctic Dogs59%
The Pied Piper65%
Plankton: The Movie67%
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters65%
Minions & More 274%
Day & Night77%
