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Released
1984 · FILM

The History of One Doll

Directed by
Runtime
9 min
Language
RU
Animation

Synopsis

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, and 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 Salvador Allende. ("Clear skies" was the codeword which launched Franco's 1936 coup, supported by the fascist governments of Italy and Germany and opposed by the USSR and France.)

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Principal cast & crew: 6

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Edited by Elena NikitkinaShot by Aleksandr VikhanskiyScored by Viktor Babushkin

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