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Left-Hander (1964 film)

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'Left-Hander' (, translit. 'Levsha') is a 1964 feature-length cutout-animated film from the Soviet Union. The film is based on the story of the same name by the 19th century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov. It was directed by the "Patriarch of Soviet animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano, at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.Peter Rollberg - Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema 0810862689 2008- Page 306 "Some of Ivanov-Vano' s more daring experiments caused controversy, ... Other films: The Three Musketeers (Tri mushketera, 1938); The Stolen Sun (Kradenoe solntse, 1944); Left-Hander (Levsha, 1964); The Seasons (Vremena goda, 1969);Soviet Film - Volumes 332-343 - Page 126 1985 This may seem to be a trivial detail in the life of the grand old man of Soviet animated cartoons Ivan Ivanov-Vano. ... Ivanov-Vano came up with Levsha (The Left-Handed Man), a full-length cartoon based on a famous story by Nikolai Leskov.Prominent Personalities in the USSR. - Page 224 1968 IVANOV-VANO, Ivan Petrovich, . "V nekotorom tsarstve" (In Some Kingdom) (1958); "Priklyucheniya Buratino" (Bura- tino's Adventures); "Levsha" (The Hander) (1964), etc.; ..."

The score was performed by the Government Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Grigori Gamburg.

Plot



The screen version of the narration of Nikolay Leskov about the surprising master Lefty who grounded a "aglitskaya" (English) steel flea.

Creators



Awards



*1964 the Honourable diploma at the VII International film festival short and documentaries in Leipzig.

Video



In 2008 was issued together with animated films "The Humpbacked Horse" 1947 and 1975 on DVD the Krupnyy Plan company.

Creation history



Ivanov-Vano bore an animated film plan about the gifted master in Leskov's story about 30 years. Over time he arrived at idea that the originality of the narration of Leskov can be transferred, having created a graphic row with a support on an art system of the Russian popular print with "its characteristic generality of forms, specific expressiveness". For animation the idea to show evolution of character of the main character was innovative. Art directors at creation of the movie were inspired by ancient engravings (action in the imperial palace), English engravings (the foreign line), and the Tula episodes were solved in the stylistics of a popular print which is organically uniting all three lines. According to the proposal of the animator of "Lefty" Yury Norstein, the movie became in equipment of a turn.

See also



*History of Russian animation

*List of animated feature films

*List of stop-motion films

References




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