It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man
Directed by	Valentina Brumberg Zinaida Brumberg Valentin Lalayants
Written by	Nikolai Erdman Mikhail Volpin
Starring	Lev Sverdlin V. Gotovtsev Georgiy Millyar Valentina Sperantova (Fedya Zaytsev) Georgiy Vitsin Serafim Anikeyev Andrei Tutyshkin Sergey Martinson G. Novozhilova Mikhail Yanshin (Little Man) Sergei Tseyts Vladimir Lepko Serafima Birman
Music by	Nikita Bogoslovskiy
Release date(s)	1960
Running time	56 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man (Russian: Челове́чка нарисова́л я; tr.: Chelovechka narisoval ya) is a 1960 Soviet cel-animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and Valentin Lalayants. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is an expanded remake of a 1948 21-minute film by the same directors called Fedya Zaytsev.

In Russia, the film is available as part of the DVD collection called "Здравствуй, школа!" ("Hello, School!"). No English-subtitled version has been released.

Plot

On the first of September, Fedya Zaytsev is the very first kid who comes to school. In his joy at realizing this, he draws a little man with an umbrella on the wall of his classroom with a piece of charcoal, realizing too late that this is against the rules. In class, the teacher notices the drawing and asks everyone to raise their hands. Fedya rubs out his hands so that they are clean, but his friend, with whom he had shaken hands earlier, has dirty hands and is blamed. Fedya goes home without saying anything, but the little man whom he drew follows him, and he teams up with all of Fedya's toys and the heroes of his favourite books to teach him a lesson. At the end of the film, Fedya admits to his mistake.

Creators

	English	Russian
Directors	Valentina Brumberg Zinaida Brumberg Valentin Lalayants	Валентина Брумберг Зинаида Брумберг Валентин Лалаянц
Scenario	Nikolai Erdman Mikhail Volpin	Николай Эрдман Михаил Вольпин
Art Directors	Lena Azarkh Valentin Lalayants	Лана Азарх Валентин Лалаянц
Artists	V. Valerianova Geliy Arkadyev Y. Tannenberg	В. Валерианова Гелий Аркадьев Е. Танненберг
Animators	Igor Podgorskiy K. Malyshev Vadim Dolgikh Fyodor Khitruk Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin Mariya Motruk Marina Voskanyants Yelena Khludova Boris Butakov Faina Yepifanova	Игорь Подгорский К. Малышев Вадим Долгих Фёдор Хитрук Вячеслав Котёночкин Мария Мотрук Марина Восканьянц Елена Хлудова Борис Бутаков Фаина Епифанова
Camera Operator	Elena Petrova	Елена Петрова
Executive Producer	G. Kruglikov	Г. Кругликов
Composer	Nikita Bogoslovskiy	Никита Богословский
Sound Operator	Hikolai Prilutskiy	Николай Прилуцкий
Script Editor	Z. Pavlova	З. Павлова
Voice Actors	Lev Sverdlin V. Gotovtsev Georgiy Millyar Valentina Sperantova (Fedya Zaytsev) Georgiy Vitsin Serafim Anikeyev Andrei Tutyshkin Sergey Martinson G. Novozhilova Mikhail Yanshin (Little Man) Sergei Tseyts Vladimir Lepko Serafima Birman	Лев Свердлин В. Готовцев Георгий Милляр Валентина Сперантова (Федя Зайцев) Георгий Вицин Серафим Аникеев Андрей Тутышкин Сергей Мартинсон Г. Новожилова Михаил Яншин (Человечек) Сергей Цейц Владимир Лепко Серафима Бирман

See also

• History of Russian animation
• List of animated feature films

External links

• It Was I Who Drew the Little Man at the Animator.ru
  • Fedya Zaytsev (1948) at the Animator.ru
• Chelovechka narisoval ya at the Internet Movie Database
• The film at myltik.ru (Russian)