Description:

The first cartoon adaptation of Chukovskiy's well-known children's poem "Chatty Fly" (Muha-Tsokotuha), about a fly who finds a coin and goes to buy a samovar.

Finished in 1941 the day before Germany attacked the USSR, the cartoon was lauded by animators at Soyuzmultfilm but received no distribution, and the original soundtrack was lost. It was remade in 1960, but the original was not seen in public again until 2019 (with the soundtrack reconstructed using mostly the 1960 version).

Boris Dyozhkin seems to have been responsible for supervising the animation. His role was ultimately subordinate to Vladimir Suteyev, but he is listed as director in the 1960 film's credits, so he is listed here as director for this film as well (for consistency's sake).