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Content: Subtle coloring and an impressionistic approach to landscape distinguish this patriotic animated short set to music. After a flourishing Soviet hamlet is destroyed by Nazi planes, the sole survivor is confronted by a hulking Nazi commando in a tank. The military man tries to cajole the young violinist into repeating a jaunty harmonica melody at gunpoint but the boy strikes up a noble song of resistance instead. Stepantsev's film may romance the idea of martyrdom but it does so with a gravity not often found in similar films.

Countries:

Soviet Union

Genres:

Animation

Runtime:

8 minutes

Year:

1971

Directors:

Boris Stepantsev

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Production companies:

Soyuzmultfilm

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Music

Director of Photography

Sound