And with this film, every Soviet cartoon released in 1946 (there were only 7) has now been translated. Though it's not my favourite of them, it's charming in its own way, especially the granny and granddaughter. Aleksandr Ivanov was a big fan of "the Disney style" and you can really tell. In later years, as relations with the US worsened and people at the studio began to critique Disney artistically as well, he was made to tone it down (most dramatically in the 1949 film Polkan and Shavka). The ending of the fairy tale is rather harsh by today's standards, but this was just after the great war, after all.