15 best Soviet films for the little ones, which parents will also enjoy watching

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In the Soviet Union, they did not save on children's cinema. Children's films had a decent budget, they were shot by famous directors, and the roles were played by movie stars. We have collected 15 children's films shot in the USSR, which are sure to please modern children of primary school age.

1. The Adventures of Buratino (1975, director Leonid Nechaev)

The premiere of the children's musical "The Adventures of Buratino" took place on the first program of Central Television on January 1 and 2, 1976.

The members of the artistic council, which accepted the picture, were extremely unhappy: “An ugly picture! How can it be - a cat without a tail, a fox in a dress, Pinocchio mocks an elderly man (meaning Karabas Barabas)”. The only thing that saved the film was that it was the end of the year, and failure to fulfill the plan was fraught with loss of awards.

The director Nechaev planned to invite Faina Ranevskaya for the role of Turtle Tortilla, but she was already in her advanced years and her health was failing. , - answered Faina Georgievna to the offer.

Dmitry Iosifov - the performer of the role of Buratino - is the only young artist who has linked his fate with cinema.

2. Cinderella (1947, directors - Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro)

The shooting of the film "Cinderella" took place in the summer of 1946. Natural episodes were filmed in Riga and its environs, and interior scenes were filmed in the Lenfilm pavilions. Models of the palace and the park were created especially for combined filming.

Janina Zeimo, who starred as Cinderella, was 38 years old during the filming of the film. So that her age was not noticeable, scenes with her participation were filmed only in the evening. Prince Alexei Konsovsky was 35 years old, and Cinderella's father Vasily Merkuriev was 43 years old.

In 1967, the film Cinderella was revived at Mosfilm. And in 2009, a second restoration took place, after which a color version of the film appeared.

3. Old Man Hottabych (1956, director Gennady Kazansky)

Stills from the film. "] The football match between the teams" Chisel "and" Puck "was filmed at two stadiums located in different parts of St. Petersburg. The game was filmed at the Svetlana stadium, and the stands at the Kirov stadium.

In a funny episode, when the old man Hottabych is eating popsicle, actor Nikolai Volkov was eating glazed curd cakes on both cheeks, not ice cream. I was afraid of catching a cold.

Alexey Litvinov, who starred in the role of Volka Kostylkov, will buy a camera, a bicycle and a Temp-2 color TV with his first fee. 2,400 rubles by Soviet standards was more than a decent amount.

4. Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963, director - Alexander Roe)

Olya and Tanya Yukina, 9-year-old students of the 337th Moscow school, became real stars after the release of "Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors". To the studio. Bitter letters for them came in bags, and at school the girls were simply not given a pass. But they never made it to the big movie.

1985 saw the release of a 20-page comic strip based on The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors.

Georgy Millyar played in "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors", as in several other Rowe's tales, several roles at once - the chief master of ceremonies, the dowager queen and the royal carter.

The film has a number of differences from the book for which it was filmed. So, in the book there is no scene of an attempt at poisoning. In the film, Abazh makes an offer to Anidag to become queen, and in the book, Nushrok.

5. Barbara beauty, long braid (1969, director - Alexander Row)

Boris Grachevsky, the future creator of Yeralash, worked as a film administrator on the set of the film. He even got the role of the hand of Miracle-Yuda, which emerges from the basin and threatens the king, saying: "A debt!"

For Sergei Nikolayev, the role of Tsarevich Andrei "plump but ill-mannered" became his debut film role and the most famous of more than fifty screen works.

Tatyana Klyueva starred in the role of the main character, the daughter of the underwater king. She began acting in films at the age of 10, and by the beginning of the filming of the film she had already had several roles on her account.

6. New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti (1975, directors - Gennady Kazansky, Igor Usov)

The premiere screening of the film "New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti" took place on December 25, 1975 on the air of the USSR Central Television.

For Mikhail Boyarsky, this film became a "family contract": Kashchei Bessmertny was played by the actor's uncle, Nikolai Boyarsky, whose famous film roles were Adam Kozlevich in The Golden Calf and a physical education teacher in The Adventures of Electronics.

A year after the release of the film, the Melodiya company released the disc "Masha and Vitya against the Wild Guitars" with an audio version of the movie fairy tale.

7. Frost

(1964, director - Alexander Rowe) "Morozko" became the 13th feature film directed by Alexander Rowe and turned out to be happy: critics and viewers accepted the film with enthusiasm.

Inna Churikova played Marfushenka while still a student at the Shchukin School. She later recalled: “I really wanted to act, but did not even hope that I would be hired. During the tests, we gnawed nuts, I gnawed them very well, not sparing my teeth. This is probably why Alexander Arturovich took me."

Steven Spielberg called the film "Frost" the forerunner of a number of Hollywood film masterpieces: the creators of spectacular special effects that have graced many American blockbusters drew ideas from Rowe's picture.

Dog Druzhok before the movie "Frost" had already starred in "The Tale of Lost Time".

8. Vasilisa the Beautiful (1939, director - Alexander Roe)

In Vasilisa the Beautiful, Georgy Millyar played Baba Yaga for the first time in his career. And he asked for this role himself.

The snake of Gorynych, at the request of Rowe, was made at the Experimental Toy Factory in Zagorsk, Moscow Region. The toy monster was 5 meters high and 11 meters long. On the set of the film, which took place in Yalta, Gorynych was brought disassembled on 4 railway platforms. On the set, the snake was set in motion by 20 people at once.

Millyar was saying: "".

9. Attention, turtle

The Soviet censors did not want to release the children's comedy, as they saw in it a hint of the Prague Spring. Cramola was seen in the episode when children release a small turtle under the tracks of tanks, and the words "Czechoslovakia" and "turtle" begin with one syllable.

Auditioned for a role in Attention, Turtle! young Oleg Menshikov. But Rolan Bykov of the future celebrity cursed: "You are too funny, you will never be an artist."

"", - wrote the widow of Rolan Bykov, actress Elena Sanaeva.

10. About Little Red Riding Hood (1977, director - Leonid Nechaev)

The premiere of the television musical "About Little Red Riding Hood" took place on December 31, 1977.

Yana Poplavskaya, who played the role of Little Red Riding Hood, became one of the youngest laureates of the USSR State Prize. Yana was only 11 years old at the time.

The working title of the film is "Continuation of an old tale".

The famous bard Julius Kim became the author of the lyrics for the film. But in the credits he appears as Yu. Mikhailov.

11. Marya the artisan

(1960, director - Alexander Rowe) Combined filming - episodes with the transformation of Vodokrut and witchcraft, scenes in the underwater kingdom - were performed in the film at a high level for that time.

The face and head of Georgy Millyar, who played Kvak in the film, was smeared with brilliant green before filming.

The soldier's uniform fully corresponds to the Russian military uniform of the mid-19th century.

12. Twelve months (1972, director - Anatoly Granik)

(1972, director - Anatoly Granik) The film is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Samuil Marshak. About how the brothers rewarded the stepdaughter for her kindness for months, and the stepmother and daughter were punished for their greed and heartlessness.

The film stars such famous Soviet actors as Tatyana Peltzer and Leonid Kuravlev.

13. Mom (1976, director - Elizabeth Bostan)

The film was released in three languages at once: Russian, English and Romanian. Each of the scenes was re-shot separately in each of the languages and therefore the timing and order of the scenes in all three versions is different.

Lyudmila Gurchenko, during the filming at the rink, collided with Oleg Popov, broke her leg and continued to act in a cast.

Since 2003, the Norwegian state television NRK has regularly shown the film on Christmas Eve. For Norwegians, it has become an integral part of the holiday.

14. Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablev (1979, director - Igor Pushkarev)

In the film you can see the good old Soviet slot machines: from the popular and widespread in the USSR "Sea Battle" to the rare machine "To the Moon".

Denis Korablev in the film is voiced by Margarita Korabelnikova.

15. Red-haired, honest, in love (1984, director - Leonid Nechaev)

The story of the friendship between a fox and a chicken, which turned the life of a large forest and a respectable chicken coop …

Denis Zaitsev, who played the role of Ludwig XIV, graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts. He starred in commercials, as well as in the films "Winter cherry", "Winter cherry-3", "Possessed", "Empire under attack."

There are many bright quotes in the film:

- One good sheep dyes the whole flock. - What ram told you that?

Ugliness! Stone curtains are needed in our time! No, cast iron! Iron-concrete!

“Ludwig, you are extraordinary, there is no other chicken coop in the world like you!” “Yes … But there are a lot of such people in the pigsty!

If it's time to get your toddler ready for school, it's time to review Soviet school textbooks for primary grades. They will be a great help for parents of future first graders.

And for reading before bedtime, Soviet books for preschoolers, which can be downloaded for free on our website.