Two Greedy Bear-Cubs
Два жадных медвежонка
Dva zadnykh medvezhonka (ru)
Dva chamtiví medvídci (cs)
Dvaja chamtiví medvedíci (sk)
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Два жадных медвежонка
Dva zadnykh medvezhonka (ru)
Dva chamtiví medvídci (cs)
Dvaja chamtiví medvedíci (sk)
| Year | 1954 |
| Director(s) | Degtyaryov Vladimir |
| Studio(s) | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Comedy Folklore & myth (non-Rus./USSR) |
| Animation Type(s) | Puppet |
| Length | 00:09:22 |
| Wordiness | 4.86 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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Description:
Two bear cubs find a piece of cheese and ask a fox to help divide it equally.
This was Soyuzmultfilm's first puppet animation, and the first to be released in the USSR after WW2. It was the first to be completed (August 30, 1954) of three puppet cartoons launched in 1953 in a newly built film studio building (on the initiative of Obraztsov, Gurov, Lomidze, Migunov, Dolgikh, and Voronov), nicknamed the "third birth" of Russian/Soviet puppet animation (the first two were the 1910s films of Ladislas Starevich and the 1930s films of Aleksandr Ptushko and others at Mosfilm - although in between them were two puppet films at Mezhrabpomfilm, only one of which survives. Also, in the 1900s there were the puppet animations of Aleksandr Shiryayev, which were unknown at the time).
Critical opinions of the film's quality at the time and in later periods were mixed. Degtyaryov later did become a well-known director of puppet animation.
The full screenplay was published in "Фильмы-сказки" #4 (1956).
DISCUSSION
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I think (after reading what they wrote) that both the positive and negative critics have some good points, but overall this is a decent and charming film for very little kids. I'd put it about on par with one of Kachanov's early films, "Novice" (1961). The screenplay does a good job of expanding the original basic fairy tale by giving some more characterization to the bears before the scenes with the fox happen, while the art direction does try a bit too hard to be "naturalistic".
It was a decent start to Soyuzmultfilm's puppet tradition, even if it isn't as good as the films of Starevich in the 1910s or Ptushko & co. at Mosfilm in the 1930s.