Music by Nodar Mamisashvili

Major error: the script editor is not Andrey Dmitruk, it could be Taisia Dimtruk instead as i observed T. Dmitruk instead of A. Dmitruk, the name Andrey has no T

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>From what I've seen, Kyїvnaukfilm has many films about elephants
Do they? What are some other ones?

>However, because they were blind, each could only see by touching a different part
I think that story is relatively well-known in Europe and the West, as well. But few are those who take its lesson to heart and internalize it enough to manage to avoid needless conflict with others. Yulian Kalisher adapted it (in a rather joking manner, along with some other Eastern wisdom) in his film The Obedient Pupil (1991).

I have to agree with Georgiy Borodin on this one. The main character spends the whole film being awful, and I was wondering for the whole film when the payoff would come. Then at the end, (spoiler), it just ends with a door falling on him? Uh, what? I really get the sense that by this stage in her career, Strautmane just saw her job as little more than work-for-hire, because I can't see a lot of effort or inspiration from her here, especially compared to some of her earlier films... (not that it's that surprising, because her earlier attempts to do something that inspired her tended to end badly... and also, she had left Soyuzmultfilm on bad terms and was now working at the only alternative studio, and I guess she felt she was on thin ice and trying not to take any artistic risks).

Unlike the first one in the Parasolka series, this one feels more grounded (I mean, it's not a total fantasy) and actually has some sort of point - to remind people that if they want safe neighborhoods, it's also their responsibility to help make them so. Overall, it's not sophisticated, but is a fun and optimistic film. Interesting to compare it to If I Were My Dad 2, a film made by Moscow's central television animation studio, with a very similar premise (two big brutes who bully a man who initially wants nothing more than to avoid a fight), except in that one, they never get their comeuppance anywhere except in a little boy's imagination. Perhaps it's no coincidence that that film was made in a USSR that was disintegrating.

Still very wacky. I think I like this one more than the "hunting" one. Maybe the director is the main difference (I like most of Pruzhanskiy's later films more than Pavlenko's...).

From what I've seen, Kyїvnaukfilm has many films about elephants, an animal that can only live in tropical regions. Their lifespan is usually 50 years, but in colder climates, it's only 10 years. In Vietnamese, elephants are called "voi", and you know what? It means "penis". Perhaps you know which part it refers to? That seemingly ugly name originates from a famous folk tale: The Six Blind Fortune Tellers and An Elephant. It tells the story of six fortune tellers who went to the market to see an elephant being offered for sale. However, because they were blind, each could only see by touching a different part: Ears, trunk, tusks, legs, tail, and back. Each believed they were right, and as a result, no two were alike, leading to a fight. From then on, "Fortune Tellers Looking at An Elephant" became an idiom referring to biased thinking.

This was one of six shorts about this little man made in the Ukrainian SSR between 1973-1980, with each one helmed by a different director. I haven't read all of the original book that the "hunting stories" come from (which was quite popular but has not, apparently, been translated to English), but at least at the start, it has nothing to do with tigers (Indian or otherwise) but is about more typical European forest animals.

The cartoon is too focused on physics-defying slapstick and not enough on character for it to hold my attention that well, especially because I also find the art to be too "rough" - rather southern in temperament. But I'm sure most little kids would like it, though I think this is one of those films that's more like candy than a full meal...

A very cute film that I watched on Vietnamese television when I was a child. Through this story with a touch of detective genre, children will learn a lesson about traffic safety rules in urban areas.

There is a pretty "song adaptation" of this film by the Denver band The Czars from 2004. In an interview , the lead singer John Grant mentions reaching out to the wife of (then late) Vadim Kurchevskiy for permission to use samples from the film in the song.