Investigation Held by Kolobki (1986)

Original title

Следствие ведут Колобки

Directed by

Igor Kovalyov, Alexander Tatarsky

Genre

comedy film, detective fiction

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

20h 35m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two detective characters solve cases in a series of short animated films. The show is a playful parody of a classic Soviet TV series.

whimsicalplayfullightheartedabsurdfast-pacedquirkynostalgicsatirical

What happens

Investigation Led by Kolobki (Russian: Следствие ведут Колобки, also Investigation Led by Kolobki, translit. Sledstvie vedut kolobki) is a series of Soviet animated shorts by Alexander Tatarsky and Igor Kovalyov that were produced from 1986 to 1987. The first two shorts were produced by Soyuztelefilm in 1986, whereas the third and fourth shorts were produced by Studio Ekran in 1987. After the shorts were released, the Pilot Brothers duo came to be heavily used by Tatarskiy's studio, Pilot TV, particularly in the series The Fruttis Attic (Russian: Чердачок Фруттис) and The Academy of Our Mistaks (Russian: Академия собственных Ашибок) [sic]. The name of the series of shorts is a pun on a once-popular Soviet television series Investigation Led by Experts. On August 9, 2018, a version of the cartoon with English dubbing was posted on the Gosteleradiofond YouTube channel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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