The Magic Pipe
A Magic Reed-Pipe
Волшебная свирель
Volshebnaya svirel (ru)
La flauta mágica (es)
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A Magic Reed-Pipe
Волшебная свирель
Volshebnaya svirel (ru)
La flauta mágica (es)
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| Year | 1998 |
| Director(s) | Tumelya Mihail |
| Studio(s) | AF Centre F.A.F. Entertainment |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Folklore & myth (Rus./USSR minorities) Literature (Rus./USSR minorities) Romance Serious War & battles |
| Animation Type(s) | Drawn (cel) Live-action Mixed Powder Puppet |
| Length | 00:49:34 |
| Wordiness | 7.21 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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Date: June 30 2025 21:12:45
Language: English
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Creator(s): ?, Niffiwan
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Date: April 17 2023 07:33:30
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Description:
A magical fairy tale based on the Ossetian national epos that tells us about the rivalry of strength and art, ancient evil and kind magic, pride and anxious love. Two suitors apply for the hand of the king's daughter: a famous warrior and a simple shepherd.
The only animated feature made by Mikhail Tumelya, and quite an ambitious work. Animated mostly with stop motion puppets, with some scenes using cel, painted and powder animation.
The original stories that this film seems to be based on can be read here:
"Atsamaz and the Beautiful Agunda": in Russian, in Ossetian
"Soslan Seeks Someone Stronger Than Himself": in Russian, in Ossetian,
Originally, the two main characters in this movie have entirely separate stories. Among other important differences, Agunda quickly succeeds in fixing the shepherd's instrument, but keeps it hidden.
Awards:
1998 - Russia, Moscow - "Zolotaya rybka" (Golden Fish) children's animation festival: Grand Prix of the international jury
1999 - Russia - "Orlyonok" Festival of Visual Arts: Grand Prix
1999 - Hungary, Kecskemét - III Kecskemét International Festival of Animated Feature Films: 2nd Prize
1999 - Russia, Tarusa - 4th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film: Special Jury Prize "For the large-scale development of the national epic by means of puppet animation"
1999 - Russia, Orlyonok - "Orlyonok" All-Russian Festival of Visual Arts: Grand Prix
1999 - Ukraine - KROK International Animation Festival: Prize "For a daring attempt to conquer the heights of the Ossetian epic"
1999 - Belgium - ANIMA festival: Special Prize for puppet animation
2000 - Russia, Moscow - "Golden Vityaz" Festival for Slavic and Orthodox Peoples: Best Animated Film
2000 - Russia, Gatchina - "Literature and Film" Festival: Jury Prize for Best Film About Love
DISCUSSION
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I think this movie is exceptionally well-structured and it's one of my favourite Russian animated features. Despite the rather bland short live-action intro at the beginning. It also has interesting characters - even the "villains" are often shown to have redeeming features. It is told from the perspective of an old-school Indo-European culture, and assumes social mores that to modern sensibilities seem really alien.
In some places, the English title is given as "The Magic Reed-Pipe". However, there is clearly no reed on the instrument. It seems to be a fipple flute. I considered "The Magic Flute" but I think the confusion with the famous work by Mozart would be too much.
I did some work to fix the sound synchronization issues (see notes in the English subtitles description).
I hope we get a proper release of this film one day, without with strange luma ghosting artifacts in the video, and with well-synced, stereo audio (it was released with only one working audio channel on DVD).