The Wild Swans (film)

The Wild Swans Russian , Dikiye lebedi is a 1962 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by the husbandandwife team of Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya. Unusual for Soviet films of this period, and especially for animated films, it was filmed in widescreen. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.

The eleven handsome princes are transformed into wild swans by their evil stepmother. Their sister Elisa is game for anything to break the spell. She must knit a nettle into armors for her brothers so they would be human again. But she might be silent for the duration of her task, for speaking one word will kill her brothers. To rescue her brothers, Elisa goes through the hoop, and she nearly dies by burning like a witch.The film expert Pyotr Bagrov in the analysis of the Soviet andersens filmography puts the animated film Wild Swans on a special place, separating its literary basis from other fairy tales of Andersen It, in general, and not the fairy tale. It is an ancient Danish legend. Respectively, other, in comparison with other animated screen versions, appeared also a graphic manner in which the tape is created The extended, Gothic people and rocks and at the same time the plane, medieval and primitive image. Bagrov also notes typical for game cinema, but rare in animation parallel installation. ........

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