'Two tickets to India' is a 1985 Soviet

Soviet Union

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/Russian

Russia

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 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 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 :...

. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm

Soyuzmultfilm

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 studio in Moscow

Moscow

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 and is based on the story of the same name by Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965...

.

Plot

The astronauts from the planet Geda fly to India on a symposium on animal protection of the Galaxy. As a result of a technical malfunction one of them finds himself in a scout's camp situated near Moscow, transformed into a tiger

Tiger

The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...

. By means of July and her grandmother, the astronaut manages to reach India.

External links

• Two tickets to India at the Animator.ru
  Animator.ru
  Animator.ru is a Russian website chronicling the films, people and studios of the animation industry in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the CIS. It also includes a forum, a news block, a photo-gallery and an animators labour exchange...
  
  (English and Russian)