Particularly hilarious Soviet cartoon about movie making August 27, 2014 12:12 PM Subscribe
Sometime within the last couple of years there was either a post or a comment linking to a really terrific Soviet cartoon about the difficulties of making a movie in the USSR....
The cartoon had a 50s-70s look to it. It was about a filmmaker who was shooting some kind of historical epic with warriors and a romantic plot and they had to change it in the middle because of censorship, and then there was a long sequence where they were going in and out of all these doors to get approval stamps on their paperwork. It was SO FUNNY and I loved it and I'd like to show it to my mother, who has some health problems and can't really read any more but can watch stuff. Like a silly, I didn't bookmark it when I saw it, and now I can't find it, and I've looked at all the Russian animation posts I could find but still can't spot it.
Does anyone know at all what I'm talking about? OMG, it was so funny.
The cartoon had a 50s-70s look to it. It was about a filmmaker who was shooting some kind of historical epic with warriors and a romantic plot and they had to change it in the middle because of censorship, and then there was a long sequence where they were going in and out of all these doors to get approval stamps on their paperwork. It was SO FUNNY and I loved it and I'd like to show it to my mother, who has some health problems and can't really read any more but can watch stuff. Like a silly, I didn't bookmark it when I saw it, and now I can't find it, and I've looked at all the Russian animation posts I could find but still can't spot it.
Does anyone know at all what I'm talking about? OMG, it was so funny.
That's it! Thank you very much! I've been thinking that my mom would enjoy this so much, and I've shown her all the other animation that I can think of that seems remotely suitable. Plus I wanted to see it again.
posted by Frowner at 12:46 PM on August 27, 2014
posted by Frowner at 12:46 PM on August 27, 2014
Complete in one video version here.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:50 AM on August 28, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by MartinWisse at 1:50 AM on August 28, 2014 [3 favorites]
This was great (and reminded me how badly out of practice my Russian is [sadface])! Thanks for bringing it up, Frowner, I'd missed it the first time!
posted by barnacles at 6:52 AM on August 28, 2014
posted by barnacles at 6:52 AM on August 28, 2014
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Which I didn't see at the time, and yeah, is super funny!
posted by papayaninja at 12:41 PM on August 27, 2014 [3 favorites]