
A Plasticine Crow(1981)
Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".


Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind the farmyard kingdom fence, and discreetly slips it into the clutch laid by his partner... Very soon, a cygnet emerges, but as he in no way resembles any of them he is immediately stigmatized by the whole farmyard, enduring humiliations and suspicion on the part of his feathered companions. But in the end he becomes a magnificent white swan.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Индюк (голос)

Konstantin Raykin
Червяк (голос)

Yuliya Rutberg
Мама-курица (голос)

Svetlana Stepchenko
Гадкий утёнок (голос)

Vladimir Kachan
Дикий гусь (голос)

Grigoriy Anashkin

Lyubov Matyushina

Garri Bardin
The Ugly Duckling is a animation film released in 2010 exploring themes of plasticine. Directed by Garri Bardin, it stars Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Konstantin Raykin, Yuliya Rutberg. Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind the farmyard kingdom fence, and discreetly slips it into the clutch laid by his partner... Very soon, a cygnet emerges, but as he in no way resembles any of them he is immediately stigmatized by the whole farmyard, enduring humiliations and suspicion on the part of his feathered companions. But in the end he becomes a magnificent white swan.
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