STORY
Subtle coloring and an impressionistic approach to landscape distinguish this patriotic animated short set to music. After a flourishing Soviet hamlet is destroyed by Nazi planes, the sole survivor is confronted by a hulking Nazi commando in a tank. The military man tries to cajole the young violinist into repeating a jaunty harmonica melody at gunpoint but the boy strikes up a noble song of resistance instead. Stepantsev's film may romance the idea of martyrdom but it does so with a gravity not often found in similar films.
CAST & CREW
Cast
- Boris Stepantsev
- Yuriy Butyrin
- Anatoliy Petrov
Directors
INFORMATION
- Soyuzmultfilm
Production Companies
- Soviet Union
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- No Language