The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988)

Original title

Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе

Directed by

Ideya Garanina

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wild cat makes a deal with a woman to join her home on her own terms. It adapts Rudyard Kipling's tale about the domestication of animals and the independence of cats.

darkprimalatmosphericslow-pacedwhimsicalancientmythicquiet

What happens

The Cat Who Walked by Herself (Russian: Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе, romanized: Koshka, kotoraya gulyala sama po sebe) is a 1988 Soviet animated feature film directed by Ideya Garanina and made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is based on Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Cat that Walked by Himself". Like the earlier Soviet animated feature Adventures of Mowgli, the film retains the dark, primal tone of Kipling's work. The production includes almost all types of animation technologies. It is not the only Soviet screen version of this fairy tale; in 1968 the director Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya at the same studio released another animated film, "The Cat Who Walked by Himself", lasting only 20 minutes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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