The New Gulliver (1935)

Original title

Новый Гулливер

Directed by

Aleksandr Ptushko

Genre

comedy film, fantasy film, adventure film, live-action/animated film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 13m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet boy named Petya dreams he is Gulliver in the land of Lilliput. The tiny inhabitants put him on trial for his size and ideas about fairness.

whimsicalinventiveplayfuldreamlikelivelysatirical

What happens

The New Gulliver (Russian: Новый Гулливер, Novyy Gullivyer) is a Soviet stop motion-animated fantasy adventure film. It was the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film (it begins and ends with short live-action sequences). The film was released in 1935 to widespread acclaim and earned director Aleksandr Ptushko a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan. The part of Gulliver was played by Vladimir Konstantinov, who was born in 1920 and died in 1944 near Tallinn in the Second World War. This was his first and only film role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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