The Humpbacked Horse (1947)

Original title

Конек-Горбунок

Directed by

Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Ivan Ivanov-Vano

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

57 min

Rated

L

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young peasant boy is given a magical horse with a humped back. Together they go on adventures that involve a firebird, a tsar, and other fairy tale characters. The story is told in rhyme and set in a Russian folk tale world.

whimsicalrhythmicfairy-talelightheartedfolkloricgentlecolorfulold-fashioned

What happens

The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к; tr.:Konyok Gorbunok, that is The Little Horse - Little Humpback), is a 1947 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film directed by I. Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on the literary fairy tale poem with the same title by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, and because of this, it is spoken in rhyme. The English dub has few rhymes and is not an overall feature. A remake also by Ivanov-Vano and Soyuzmultfilm was released in 1975. This version, translated in English by George Molko, was released on October 25, 1977, as The Magic Pony. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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