Parasolka Joins the Neighborhood Watch (Парасолька становится дружинником, 1976) by Tsezar Orshanskiy

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Parasolka Joins the Neighborhood Watch
Parasolka Becomes a Watch Volunteer
Parasolka Becomes a Druzhinnik
Парасолька становится дружинником
Парасолька стає дружинником
Parasolka stanovitsya druzhinnikom (ru)
Parasolka staye druzhynnykom (uk)

Year 1976
Director(s) Orshanskiy Tsezar
Studio(s) Kievnauchfilm
Language(s) (wordless)
Ukrainian
Genre(s) Comedy
Domestic life
Animation Type(s)  Drawn (cel)
Length 00:07:26
Wordiness 0.79
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This film is part of the Parasolka series.

Description:

When two street toughs begin bullying the neighborhood, a little man eventually decides to intervene.

The film is wordless and has only a few written words that can be translated, but aren't essential.

The red arm bands seen at the end of the film were worn by members of the Voluntary People's Druzhinas - volunteers who helped patrol their neighborhoods and could make citizen's arrests. This was similar to what is called a neighborhood watch in English-speaking countries.

 

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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.


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