Passion of Spies is a 1967 Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union...

's animated black-and-white

Black-and-white

Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...

 film directed by Yefim Gamburg

Yefim Gamburg

Yefim Abramovich Gamburg was a Soviet and Russian animator, who is best known for directing Passion of Spies, Blue Puppy and Dog in Boots. He graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, since 1955 he worked for Soyuzmultfilm studio...

. It parodies spy

Spy fiction

Spy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War , when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century...

 and detective fiction

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator , either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.-In ancient literature:...

 clichés.

Plot

In Part 1, a foreign Intelligence agency

Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to information gathering for purposes of national security and defence. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public...

 chief Shtampf is suffering from a toothache

Toothache

A toothache, also known as odontalgia or, less frequently, as odontalgy, is an aching pain in or around a tooth.-Causes:* Dental etiology, In most cases toothaches are caused by problems in the tooth or jaw, such as** Dental caries...

. After he finds out that a wonderful dentist's chair was invented in the Soviet Union, so he develops a plan of stealing it. Part 2 tells the story of chauffeur's idle son Kolychev, who cannot pay the restaurant bill. He have to organize the dentist's chair' destruction in return.

Animators

• Tatyana Pomerantseva
• Elvira Maslova
• Ivan Davydov
• Joseph Kuroyan
• Renata Mirenkova
• Olga Orlova
• Dmitriy Anpilov
• Natalia Bogomolova
• Antonina Aleshina
• Yuriy Butyrin

External links

• Passion of Spies at the Kinopoisk.ru