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The Enchanted Boy
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Wikipedia article
'The Enchanted Boy' (, 'Zakoldovanyy malchik') is a 1955 Soviet/Russia traditionally animated feature film directed by Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. The film is an adaptation of 'The Wonderful Adventures of Nils' by Selma Lagerlf. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
The film's image and sound were recently restored by the Russian company Krupnyy Plan, which released it on video and DVD packaged together with '[http://www.animator.ru/db/?p=show_film&fid=2093 Cipollino]', a 1961, 40-minute feature film directed by Boris Dyozhkin. No English-subtitled version has been released.
Plot
The naughty boy Nils, who delights in torturing animals, is bewitched by a 'tomte'. Now shrunken to a small size and able to talk to animals, he flies across Lapland on the backs of wild geese. During these dangerous travels he does many noble deeds, and, at the same time, searches for the 'tomte' who would take the spell away.
Creators
Video
In the early nineties the animated film was released on videotapes by the film association "Krupnyy Plan". In the middle of the 1990s, it was included in the collection "The Best Soviet Animated Films" by Studio PRO Video and in the collection of animated films of a film studio "Soyuzmultfilm".
See also
*History of Russian animation
*List of animated feature-length films
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