Aleksandr PTUSHKO
Александр ПТУШКО
Aleksandr PTOUCHKO
USSR, 1937, 30mn 
Colour, animation
Skazka o rybake i rybke
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Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке

 

 Le Conte du pêcheur et du poisson

 Skazka o rybake i rybke

 
Directed by : Aleksandr PTUSHKO (Александр ПТУШКО)
Writing credits : Aleksandr PTUSHKO (Александр ПТУШКО)
Cinematography : Fyodor FIRSOV (Федор ФИРСОВ)
Production design : P. BAZHENOV (П. БАЖЕНОВ)
Music : Lev SCHWARTZ (Лев ШВАРЦ)
Sound : Vyacheslav LESHCHEV (Вячеслав ЛЕЩЕВ)
Production : Mosfilm
 

Plot synopsis
One day, a poor fisherman catches a small golden fish. He asks the fisherman to release him, promising to fulfill all his wishes. But the old man takes pity on him and gives him back his freedom without asking anything. Back home, the fisherman recounts his adventure to his wife, who forces him to return to the river to ask the goldfish for a new laundry tub. So he goes to the river again and the fish grants him the laundry tub. The woman is however not satisfied and asks her husband for a house, a title of nobility and finally that of tsarina. But she always wants more, and while now despising her husband, she demands to become the queen of the waters and to have the golden fish in her service. She ends up losing everything, the little golden fish takes back all her gifts
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991), kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Festival of Archive Films, Belye Stolby (Russia), 2011

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