Merry-Go-Round 12 (Весёлая карусель 12, 1983) by Yelena Gavrilko, Aleksandr Gorlenko and Aleksandr Mazayev

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Merry-Go-Round 12
Весёлая карусель 12
Vesyolaya karusel 12 (ru)
Lõbus karussell 12 (et)

Year 1983
Director(s) Gavrilko Yelena
Gorlenko Aleksandr
Mazayev Aleksandr
Studio(s) Soyuzmultfilm
Language(s) Russian
Genre(s) Comedy
Misc.
Surrealism/dream-logic
Animation Type(s)  Drawn (cel)
Length 00:09:36
Wordiness 2.57
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This film is part of the Merry-Go-Round series.

Description:

The 12th entry of a long-running series of short cartoons by promising new directors. Includes: "Pencil and Eraser" (Gavrilko), "What Happened to the Crocodile?" (Gorlenko), "Echo" (Mazayev).

 

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This entry is unusual for not having the "merry-go-round" appear in between the films, but only at the start and end. As for the films themselves, the first one is a very simple and abstract directorial debut by Gavrilko, probably the least fun of her films and interesting primarily for including the unusual music of Alfred Schnittke, who was also one of the favourite composers that Hrzhanovskiy used in his films. The second film by Gorlenko, about the crocodile and the bird, is a very hopeful representation of the Soviet ideal that nurture, not nature is what matters most (which when taken too far led to things like Lysenkoism). The film is well done but is ruined by its narrator, who sounds like a very uninterested woman who just wants to get this over with and would rather be anywhere else. I strongly suspect that the film was originally wordless, but somebody in management couldn't understand it (or thought that kids wouldn't be able to) and insisted on adding the narrator at the last minute. The last film, I think, has not much of a point to it beyond simply being extremely cutesy... it's Mazayev's first film and probably his worst. I haven't seen all of them yet, but all the others that I have seen are better.


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