Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Olga Khodatayeva
U.S.S.R.
1944
Russian language dialogue with English subtitles
11 minutes
TBD format
12:30, Sunday November 22, 2009
Screened as part of Retrospective II
An adaptation of a children’s poem by K. Chukovsky about a crocodile who eats the sun and plunges the world into darkness, this cartoon also reflects the blackness of the years when a terrible war claimed the lives of tens of millions of the Soviet Union’s inhabitants, and ends with a hopeful wish that the dark time will pass. It was co-directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano, who was one of the founders of Soviet animation in the 1920s and remained one of its leading directors until his last film in 1984.
