Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
Pilot animation studio
Present
We live in Russia.
The state emblem of Russia is a golden double-headed eagle,
powerful and majestic.
On its chest is St.George
slaying the evil dragon with a silver lance.
The Russian flag has three colors:
White is the color of peace and purity.
Blue is the color of the sky and hope,
and red is the color of glory and bravery.
The capital of our country is Moscow.
Our country is the biggest in the world.
To cross it from one end to the other
would take eight and a half days by train.
There, on the banks of the deep Amur river
and farther, over the sea, on Sakhalin Island,
live the Nivkh people, a small nation.
The Nivkhs have lived in this area since ancient times.
They are magnificent hunters and fishermen.
They used to make their winter clothes from fur
and their summer clothes would even be made from fish scales.
But the most fascinating thing
is that the Nivkhs are the only nation in the world
who bred bears as if they were cows.
Also, in those wild woods lives a very rare animal -
the Amur tiger.
He is very strong and could defeat even a lion.
In the wonderful Nivkh fairy tales,
all the animals are intelligent
and behave just like people.
And each of their fairy tales is like a precious gem.
Mountain of Gems
How the Serpent Was Cheated
screenwriter, art director, director Andrey Kuznetsov
The film uses the compositions of Georgiy Andriyanov performed by the "Bugotak" band (from Novosibirsk)
...and Sasha Gusev sound director Vladislav Tarasov
animators Andrey Kuznetsov, Yuriy Pronin, Aleksandra Yevseyeva, Yelena Spiridonova, Yekaterina Grushina
assistant director Oksana Fomushkina
tech department Aleksey Gankov production director Lyudmila Kopteva producer Irina Kaplichnaya
plasticine intro crew: director Sergey Merinov
text Georgiy Zakolodyazhnyy voice Aleksandr Lenkov
art director Eduard Belyayev camera/montage Andrey Puchnin
art director Galina Golubeva animators Natalya Akashkina, Natalya Sokolova
artistic council of the project: Eduard Nazarov, Aleksandr Tatarskiy,
Mihail Aldashin, Valentin Telegin, Georgiy Zakolodyazhnyy
project executive producer Igor Gelashvili
project supervisor Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Filmed with the financial support of the Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography
The End
subtitles by Mountain of Gems & Niffiwan (2024)