The Cat Who Walked by Herself

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name = The Cat Who Walked by Herself

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director = Ideya Garanina
producer = Ideya Garanina
writer = Ideya Garanina Mariya Solovyova
starring = Valentina Ponomaryova Yelena Sanayeva Georgiy Burkov Nikolay Karachentsov Inna Churikova Nogon Shumarov Anna Kamenkova Nikolai Burlyayev
music = Sofya Gubaydulina
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editing = Nadezhda Treshchyova
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released = 1988 (USSR)
runtime = 70 min
country = USSR
language = Russian
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imdb_id = 0997248

"The Cat Who Walked by Herself" ( _ru. Ко́шка, кото́рая гуля́ла сама́ по себе́; tr.:"Koshka, kotoraya gulyala sama po sebe") is a 1988 Soviet animated feature film directed by Ideya Garanina and made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is based on Rudyard Kipling's short story, "The Cat that Walked by Himself". Like the earlier Soviet animated feature "Adventures of Mowgli", the film retains the dark, primal tone of Kipling's work.

Plot

The film is largely based on the short story, but goes off on many digressions.

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth is starting with dinosaurs.

Creators

Home video

The film is available on DVD in the collection "Золотая коллекция мультфильмов 9" ("Golden Collection of Cartoons 9"), a PAL 2003 Russian release. It also includes the films " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2117 Barankin, be a Man!] ", " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2137 Inchgirl] ", " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=3186 The Pot of Porridge] ", " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=4393 How the Cat Fought with Mice] " and " [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=5139 Wings, Legs and Tails] " (total running time: 142 minutes).

The film has also been released on DVD by the company "Krupnyy Plan". [http://vobzor.com/page.php?id=1927]

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=3367 The film] at the Animator.ru (English and Russian)
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* [http://books.interros.ru/?book=mult&mode=print&id=38 Interview with the director] ru icon