Alice's Birthday
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Alice's Birthday is a 2009 Russian animated
Animation
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 feature film
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 directed by Sergey Seryogin and produced by Master-film studio. The animated film is based on a story by Kir Bulychyov about Alisa (Alice) Seleznyova
Alice, Girl from the Future
Alice, Girl of the Future, also known as Alice, the Girl from Earth, is a collection of science fiction stories for children by Kir Bulychev, published in 2002...

, a young girl living in the second half of the 21st century. It is the third animation to be based on one of the Alice stories, with the first having been The Mystery of the Third Planet
The Mystery of the Third Planet
The Mystery of the Third Planet , aka The Secret of the Third Planet is a 1981 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by Roman Kachanov and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow...

(1981).

Roughly one third of the film's 60 million ruble
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 budget was provided by the Russian government.

The film premiered in Star City, Russia
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 on February 12, 2009. It was widely released in Russia on February 19 with 250 film prints.

Some of the scenes were done using Flash animation. The part of Gromozeka was played by Aleksey Kolgan, who is also the Russian voice of Shrek
Shrek (character)
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.. Natalya Guseva, who played "Alice" in a famous earlier live-action series, has a minor role as the spaceship captain.

Script Editor - Natalya Abramova. Art Director - Sergey Gavrilov.

Background

The story "Alice's Birthday" was written by Kir Bulychev in 1971, and published in 1974 in the book Girl from Earth .

Cast

  • Yasya Nikolayeva as Alice
    Alice, Girl from the Future
    Alice, Girl of the Future, also known as Alice, the Girl from Earth, is a collection of science fiction stories for children by Kir Bulychev, published in 2002...

  • Yevgeniy Stychkin as Professor R-r-r
  • Aleksey Kolgan as Gromozeka
  • Roman Staburov as Doctor/Stepan
  • Svetlana Svetikova
    Svetlana Svetikova
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     as singer
  • Natalya Guseva as Spaceship captain
  • Mark Chernavin as Bolo
  • Nikolai Lazarev as Professor Seleznyov

Other company in the world

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, Nomad (studio)
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, Studio Pierrot
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is a Japanese animation/animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters is located in Mitaka, Tokyo.The company has a simple logo of the face of a clown...

Seoul Broadcasting System
CCTV-14
Asianet
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, Pogo TV
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, ETV Urdu
ABS-CBN
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, GMA Network
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France 3
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, France 4
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Rete 4
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 (old dub), Rai Gulp
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 (new dub)
Clan TVE
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Canal Panda
Canal Panda
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RTL Klub
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TVR2
ZigZap
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, TV4 (Poland)
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RTL II
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, ZDF
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Pop Girl
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See also

  • The Mystery of the Third Planet
    The Mystery of the Third Planet
    The Mystery of the Third Planet , aka The Secret of the Third Planet is a 1981 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by Roman Kachanov and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow...

  • Russian films of 2009
    Russian films of 2009
    A list of films produced in Russia in 2009 .-2009:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

  • History of Russian animation
    History of Russian animation
    The History of Russian animation is very rich, but is so far a nearly unexplored field for Western film theory and history. As most of Russia's production of animation for film|cinema and television was created during Soviet times, it may also be referred to as the History of Soviet...

  • List of animated feature films

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