The Villain with the Sticky Label
Злодейка с наклейкой
Zlodeyka s nakleykoy (ru)
Zločinec s nálepkou (cs)
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Злодейка с наклейкой
Zlodeyka s nakleykoy (ru)
Zločinec s nálepkou (cs)
| Year | 1954 |
| Director(s) | Shcherbakov Vsevolod Stepantsev Boris |
| Studio(s) | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Domestic life NSFW / 18+ Politics Serious |
| Animation Type(s) | Live-action Puppet |
| Length | 00:09:52 |
| Wordiness | 2.00 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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⭳ Zlodeyka s nakleykoy.1954.cs.1.25fps.1588856325.srt
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⭳ Zlodeyka s nakleykoy.1954.cs.1.25fps.1588856325.srt
Date: May 07 2020 12:58:45
Language: Czech
Quality: unknown
Upload notes: 77 characters long (view)
Creator(s): wero1000
⭳ Zlodeyka s nakleykoy.1954.en.1.25fps.1771269544.srt
Date: February 16 2026 19:19:04
Language: English
Quality: ok
Upload notes: 175 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Eus, Niffiwan₂
Description:
A bottle of vodka goes around and makes various Soviet workers sabotage their jobs. A message film about the evils of alcoholism. For adults.
This has barely any animation (there is a little around the 7-minute mark, for example), and is mostly live-action puppets. There were a number of other films like this released in the early years of puppet films at Soyuzmultfilm.
It was originally released as part of the "Birthmarks" film-almanac with several other short films: "The Reluctant Auditors", "I Can't Remember Anything" and "The Signature is Illegible". They were all about various social problems in the USSR, and the last of them came from the same studio, but from its 2D animation division.
This was the first film for both of these directors. Shcherbakov would only make one other film (in a similar live-action puppet style), while Stepantsev would become a famous animation director, later moving into 2D animation and directing the famous "Junior and Karlsson" and its sequel.
The screenwriter was Sergey Mikhalkov, more famous for writing the text for both the Soviet and Russian national anthems, and for his children's stories.
DISCUSSION
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I think this is the worst "animated" (if you can call it that) Soviet film released in 1954. Interesting maybe for historical reasons (and Stepantsev's debut as director), and maybe to get a small hint of the vibe of everyday life at the time, but not much else. Slow, plodding, lacking in subtlety and heavy-handed. This is the film that actually conforms to every negative stereotype that the uninformed have about Soviet cinema. The other social satire in that year's almanac, The Signature is Illegible, is so much better.
I'm sure it's partly due to the technique (live-action puppets are limited in what you can do with them), but the other film in this technique released that year, At a Summer Villa, is also much more interesting.