The Wild Swans (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Wild Swans


caption = The Crow explains to Lisa that there is a way to reverse her brother's "swan" curse.
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director = Vera Tsekhanovskaya Mikhail Tsekhanovsky
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writer = Yevgeniy Ryss Leonid Trauberg Mikhail Volpin (lyrics)
starring = Sergei Martinson K. Ustyugov Anatoliy Shchukin Askold Besedin V. Tumanova Erast Garin Viktor Sergachev Yelena Ponsova R. Chumak
music = Aleksandr Varlamov
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editing = V. Tutubiner
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released = 1962 (USSR)
runtime = 60 min 27 sec
country = USSR
language = Russian
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imdb_id = 0238938

"The Wild Swans" ( _ru. Дикие лебеди; tr.:"Dikiye lebedi") is a 1962 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by the husband-and-wife team of Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya. Unusual for Soviet films of this period, and especially for animated films, it was filmed in widescreen. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.

Plot

The film is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.

Home video releases

*DVD: "Золотая коллекция любимых мультфильмов - 4". PAL, no subtitles. Contains: "The Wild Swans", " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2571 Argonauts] " (20 min), " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=6748 The Boatswain and the Parrot] " (series 1-4, 38 min), " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2707 A Blue Puppy] " (20 min)
*VHS and MPEG-4 versions containing only the film.

ee also

*History of Russian animation
*List of animated feature-length films

External links

* [http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2098 The film] at the Animator.ru (English and Russian)
*imdb title|id=0238938|title=Dikiye lebedi (incorrect year of release)
* [http://www.myltik.ru/index.php?topic=db&fe=multview&multid=290 The film at myltik.ru] ru icon