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Alice's Birthday 
Official posterDirected by Sergey Seryogin Produced by Vyacheslav Mayasov
Aleksandr GerasimovWritten by Kir Bulychev (story)
Andrey Zhitkov
Andrey Salomatov
Sergey SeryoginMusic by Dmitriy Rybnikov Distributed by Master-film Release date(s) February 12, 2009 Running time 90 minutes Country Russia Language Russian Budget 60 mln rub ($2 million) Alice's Birthday (Russian: Де́нь рожде́ния Али́сы, translit. Den' rozhdeniya Alisy), is a 2009[1] Russian animated feature film directed by Sergey Seryogin and produced by Master-film studio. The animated film is based on a story by Kir Bulychyov about Alisa (Alice) Seleznyova, a young girl living in the second half of the 21st century. It is the third animation to be based on one of the Alice stories, with the first having been The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981).
Roughly one third of the film's 60 million ruble budget[2] was provided by the Russian government.[3]
The film premiered in Star City, Russia on February 12, 2009.[2] It was widely released in Russia on February 19 with 250 film prints.[2]
Some of the scenes were done using Flash animation.[4] The part of Gromozeka was played by Aleksey Kolgan, who is also the Russian voice of Shrek.[5]. Natalya Guseva, who played "Alice" in a famous earlier live-action series, has a minor role as the spaceship captain.
Script Editor - Natalya Abramova. Art Director - Sergey Gavrilov.
Contents
Background
The story "Alice's Birthday" was written by Kir Bulychev in 1971, and published in 1974 in the book Girl from Earth (Russian: Девочка с Земли).
Cast
- Yasya Nikolayeva as Alice
- Yevgeniy Stychkin as Professor R-r-r
- Aleksey Kolgan as Gromozeka[5]
- Roman Staburov as Doctor/Stepan
- Svetlana Svetikova as singer
- Natalya Guseva as Spaceship captain
- Mark Chernavin as Bolo
- Nikolai Lazarev as Professor Seleznyov
Other company in the world
Country Company 
JapanTV Tokyo, Nomad (studio), Studio Pierrot 
South KoreaSeoul Broadcasting System 
ChinaCCTV-14 
IndiaAsianet, Pogo TV, ETV Urdu 
PhilippinesABS-CBN, GMA Network 
FranceFrance 3, France 4 
ItalyRete 4 (old dub), Rai Gulp (new dub) 
SpainClan TVE 
PortugalCanal Panda 
HungaryRTL Klub 
RomaniaTVR2 
PolandZigZap, TV4 (Poland) See also
- The Mystery of the Third Planet
- Russian films of 2009
- History of Russian animation
- List of animated feature films
References
- ^ Новиков, Леонид. Мультяков громадье. 2007-03-12
- ^ a b c В Звездном городке представили премьеру мультфильма «День рождения Алисы». Mir TV. February 12, 2009. Accessed on February 20, 2009. (Russian)
- ^ В России больше не снимают мультфильмы. InFOX.ru. February 5, 2009. (Russian)
- ^ Рукотворные истории. (Russian) Vedomosti. July 3, 2007. Accessed on: October 24, 2008.
- ^ a b Info about the preliminary May 2008 screening at outzone.ru (Russian). Retrieved on: October 24, 2008.
External links
- Official website (Russian)
- Den rozhdeniya Alisy at the Internet Movie Database
- Alice's Birthday at MASTER-FILM
- Interview with director and producer (translated to English)
- Artwork for the film (Russian)
- A number of demo-reels and trailers
Categories:- 2009 films
- Russian films
- Russian-language films
- Space adventure films
- Russian animated films
- Russian science fiction films
- Films set in the 22nd century
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