The Enchanted Boy is a 1955 Soviet

Soviet Union

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/Russia

Russia

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n traditionally-animated

Traditional animation

Traditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...

 feature film

Feature film

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 directed by Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. It was produced at the 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...

 studio in Moscow

Moscow

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The film's image and sound was recently restored by the Russian company Krupnyy Plan, which released it on video and DVD packaged together with Cipollino

Cipollino

Cipollino is a fictional character from Gianni Rodari's eponymous Tale of Cipollino , also known under its 1957 renamed title Adventures of Cipollino , a children's tale about political oppression...

, a 1961, 39-minute film directed by Boris Dyozhkin. No English-subtitled version has been released.

Plot

The film is an adaptation of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It was published in two books, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1906 and Further Adventures of Nils in 1907...

by Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ....

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The naughty boy Nils, who delights in torturing animals, is bewitched by a tomte

Tomte

A tomte , nisse or tonttu is a mythical creature of Scandinavian folklore. The tomte or nisse was believed to take care of a farmer's home and children and protect them from misfortune, in particular at night, when the housefolk were asleep...

. Now shrunken to a small size and able to talk to animals, he flies across Lapland on the backs of wild geese

Goose

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. During these dangerous travels he does many noble deeds, and, at the same time, searches for the tomte who would take the spell away.

Creators

	English	Russian
Director-producers	Vladimir Polkovnikov Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Владимир Полковников Александра Снежко-Блоцкая
Scenario	Mikhail Volpin	Михаил Вольпин
Art Directors	Grazhina Brashishkitye Lev Milchin Lev Milchin Lev Isaakovich Milchin was a Soviet animated film director, art director and painter. He was also a pedagogue and Honoured Artist of the RSFSR.He was a prototype for the main character for Film, Film, Film.- Selected filmography :... Roman Kachanov Roman Abelevich Kachanov Roman Abelevich Kachanov was a Russian animator, one of the founders and leaders of Russian stop-motion animation.Kachanov was the director and screenwriter of the trilogy about Cheburashka, Gena the Crocodile and Shapoklyak.- Early years :...	Гражина Брашишките Лев Мильчин Роман Качанов
Artists	Irina Svetlitsa I. Prokofyeva Pyotr Korobayev	Ирина Светлица И. Прокофьева Пётр Коробаев
Animators	Konstantin Chikin Tatyana Taranovich Faina Yepifanova L. Popov Vadim Dolgikh Boris Meyerovich Lev Pozdneyev Renata Mirenkova Igor Podgorskiy Fyodor Khitruk Fyodor Khitruk Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk is one of the most influential animators and animation directors in Russian animation.-Biography:Khitruk was born in Tver, Russian Empire and came to Moscow to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with... Vladimir Krumin Gennadiy Novozhilov Boris Chani	Константин Чикин Татьяна Таранович Фаина Епифанова Л. Попов Вадим Долгих Борис Меерович Лев Позднеев Рената Миренкова Игорь Подгорский Фёдор Хитрук Владимир Крумин Геннадий Новожилов Борис Чани
Camera Operator	Mikhail Druyan	Михаил Друян
Composer	Vladimir Yurovskiy	Владимир Юровский
Sound Operator	Nikolai Prilutskiy	Николай Прилуцкий
Voice actors	Valentina Sperantova (Nils) Alexey Konsovskiy Tatyana Strukova Anatoliy Kubatskiy (Gnome) Erast Garin Erast Garin Erast Pavlovich Garin was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1977....  (Martin) Georgiy Vitsin (Rozenbaum)	Валентина Сперантова Алексей Консовский Татьяна Струкова Анатолий Кубацкий Эраст Гарин Георгий Вицин
Editor	Nina Mayorova	Нина Майорова

External links

• The Enchanted Boy at the Animator.ru
  Animator.ru
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• The Enchanted Boy at Myltik.ru
• The Enchanted Boy at Krupnyy Plan