Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm ( Cyrillic Союзмультфильм, such as Union Animation ) is a Russian animated film studio in Moscow. Since its founding on June 10, 1936 1,500 films for cinema and television were produced, which were awarded several national and international prizes and made ​​into the most important animation studio Soyuzmultfilm the Soviet Union. The mascot of the company is the mythical creature " Cheburashka " (r. novel Katschanow ).

Among the well-known television series and animated films that were produced here were The Snow Queen (1957 ), Crocodile Gena, Winnie the Pooh (both 1969), rabbit and wolf ( 1969-1993 ), Cheburashka (1971 ), The Hedgehog in the Fog (1975 ) and the History of stories ( 1979, as the Previous directed by Yuri Norstein, 1984 at the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles and again in 2002 as "the best animated film of all time" award ), the Mystery of the third planet (1981). Due to their popularity, they were incorporated into the Soviet everyday culture of the 1960s to 1980s. In addition to the above Norstein had artists like Alexander Lukich Ptuschko or later Stanislav Sokolov at Soyuzmultfilm.

Attractive studio was because of the great artistic freedom, which was granted, and the extraordinary artistic versatility of the work. Promotional looked the fact that the creators were not as state employees under the pressure of commercial success.

After the end of the Soviet era, Soyuzmultfilm which was privatized and exploited by a new management team. 90 percent of the formerly employed 600 skilled workers lost their jobs. Neither quantity nor quality of products they could build on their Golden Age.

  • Cartoons on Soviet stamps from 1988

Winnie the Pooh

Rabbit and wolf

Hedgehog in the Fog

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