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Surprising master Lefty, who grounded a steel flea. This feature-length cutout-animated film from the Soviet Union is based on the story of the same name by the 19th century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov. It was directed by the "Patriarch of Soviet animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano, at the Soyuzmult film studio.
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Audiences 68GoodWatch 65
IMDb6.8
Running time
43 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 animated movies, −46 min on the typical 89
typical 8943Half of all animated movies run 80–99 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1964
December 31, 1964
62 years ago
Genres
AnimationFamilyLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
Directing · 2
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano Director, Screenplay
- Vladimir Danilevich Co-Director
Writing · 2
- Nikolai Leskov Book
- Natalya Abramova Script Editor
Production · 1
- Natan Bitman Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Iosif Golomb Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Nina Mayorova Editor
Sound · 3
- Anatoliy Aleksandrov Original Music Composer
- Boris Filchikov Sound Director
- Grigoriy Gamburg Conductor
Art · 18
- Arkadiy Tyurin Production Design
- Marina Sokolova Production Design
- Anatoly Kuritsyn Production Design
- Galina Nevzorova Background Designer
- Vladimir Alisov Background Designer
- Svetlana Znamenskaya Property Master
Visual Effects · 5
- Yuri Norstein Animation
- Mikhail Botov Animation
- Kirill Malyantovich Animation
- Lev Zhdanov Animation
- Galina Zolotovskaya Animation
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