Aleksandr PTUSHKO
Александр ПТУШКО
Aleksandr PTOUCHKO
USSR, 1935, 68mn 
Black and white, animation
Novy Gulliver
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Новый Гулливер

 

 The New Gulliver

 Le Nouveau Gulliver

 
Directed by : Aleksandr PTUSHKO (Александр ПТУШКО)
Writing credits : Aleksandr PTUSHKO (Александр ПТУШКО), Serafima ROSHAL (Серафима РОШАЛЬ), Grigori ROSHAL (Григорий РОШАЛЬ)
Based on The Gulliver’s Travels by J. Swift
 
Cast
Ivan BOBROV (Иван БОБРОВ)
V. KONSTANTINOV (В. КОНСТАНТИНОВ)
Nikolay SHPIKOVSKY (Николай ШПИКОВСКИЙ)
Ivan YUDIN (Иван ЮДИН)
 
Cinematography : Nikolay RENKOV (Николай РЕНКОВ), I. SHKARINKOV (И. ШКАРИНКОВ)
Production design : Yuri SHVETS (Юрий ШВЕЦ)
Music : Lev SCHWARTZ (Лев ШВАРЦ)
Sound : A. KOROBOV (А. КОРОБОВ)
Companies : Mosfilm
Restauration : Mosfilm (1960)
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Awards :
Prize for the best program Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1934
Diplôme d’honneur au Festival de Moscou pour Mokil (artiste de marionnettes), 1935

Plot synopsis
One of the first full-length animated films made anywhere in the world, THE NEW GULLIVER tells the story of Petya (Vladimir Konstantinov), a young Soviet pioneer who falls asleep reading Swift's Gulliver's Travels - and awakens in a surreal Lilliput, updated to include jazz bands, mechanized tractors and (in the best revolutionary spirit) a miniaturized workers' proletariat, who rise up with the help of the giant Petya. Ptushko's first feature as director is an astounding hybrid of stop-motion animation (over 3,000 separate figures were used) and live-action footage.
Source : www.seagullfilms.com
 

commentaries
50 dessins animés ayant marqué l’histoire du cinéma russe et soviétique (vidéos), Maria TOKMACHEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Les quinze films étrangers et soviétiques préférés de Joseph Staline, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
Le Nouveau Gulliver : montagnes russes et fantasmagorie soviétique, Pascal VIMENET, Slovo, Presses de l’INALCO, 2019
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991), kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival : NIFF, Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2005
- Tokyo International Film Festival : TIFF, Tokyo (Japan), 2000
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1985
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1934

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