A 19-minute Soviet fever dream where a lazy kid gets bullied by fairy tales until he learns to work. Communist propaganda slaps.
A schoolboy gets into a fairy tale with the help of a librarian and DIY book. But life in the magical land is not as easy as it seems.
Writing
Fairy tale characters as union reps who hate you
Director
Boris Stepantsev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prime example of Khrushchev-era 'animation for adults that kids also watch'—the 'labor popularization' keyword is doing heavy ideological lifting.
Director Boris Stepantsev later made the USSR's first feature-length animated rock opera; this was him warming up.
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