Mashenka
Little Masha
Машенька
Mashenka (ru)
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Little Masha
Машенька
Mashenka (ru)
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| Year | 1992 |
| Director(s) | Olifirenko Sergey |
| Studio(s) | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Comedy Folklore & myth (Rus./East Slavic) |
| Animation Type(s) | Puppet |
| Length | 00:09:30 |
| Wordiness | 4.17 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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⭳ Mashenka.1992.en.1.25fps.1719481680.srt
Date: June 27 2024 09:48:00
Language: English
Quality: good
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⭳ Mashenka.1992.en.1.25fps.1719481680.srt
Date: June 27 2024 09:48:00
Language: English
Quality: good
Upload notes:
Creator(s): Niffiwan
Description:
A bear brings home a little girl who offers to help him keep house, but her enthusiasm far outmatches her ability. Based on the Russian folk tale "Masha and the Bear".
The original lyrics of the folk song at the end (Когда б имел златые горы) can be found here.
Award:
1993 - Ukraine - 2nd KROK International Animated Films Festival - Best Direction
DISCUSSION
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Larisa Malyukova (in her book Сверхкино, p.162) thinks that this film was the prototype for the popular recent "Masha and the Bear" animated series. Olifirenko was one of the few puppet animation directors (and a good one, at that) who kept working at Soyuzmultfilm during the 1990s while the studio was falling apart (most of them left to work at Christmas Films studio on the "Animated Shakespeare" series for the Brits, or at Garri Bardin's "Stayer" studio).
There's a rather detailed (perhaps too detailed) review analysing of the "hidden meaning" of this one over at Kinopoisk.
I think Olifirenko's next film is even better, but rather difficult to translate. Not sure if I'll manage it, though I'd like to try.