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"The Bremen town musicians" - a fabulous story of the writers of the Brothers Grimm. The Soviet musical cartoon of 1969, created in the technique of drawing, also has the same name, the composer of which was Gennady Gladkov. The main characters of the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians" - Donkey, Cat, Dog, Rooster - are domestic animals that left their farms because of their uselessness and cruel treatment by their owners, who are heading towards the city of Bremen to earn money there with musical performances, but so they don't get there.
There are a few more main characters in the Soviet animated film "The Bremen Town Musicians". Together with the four described above, the Troubadour travels - an elegant and slender blond, the soloist of this wandering ensemble, who, during an unsuccessful performance near the royal castle, falls in love with the Princess. In the list of heroes"Bremen Town Musicians" there are also robbers led by Atamansha. These characters are the antagonists of the main characters. The cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" today can be called one of the most popular animated films in the countries of the post-Soviet space.
The plot of the fairy tale
The heroes of the "Bremen Town Musicians" once come across a house where the robbers are resting after another robbery campaign. The friends decide to scare the bandits with noise. The idea works - the robbers, having heard strange and frightening sounds that are heard outside the window, leave their home in fear. A little later, the bandits decide to send their scout there. The messenger enters the house at night. Moments later, it shoots out like an arrow, scratched, bitten and scared out of his wits.
This is what the unfortunate hero of The Bremen Town Musicians told his comrades - the poor fellow, who did not fully understand what really happened to him that night in the house:
- First, the Witch scratched his face (in fact, as the reader knows, this was done by the Cat, who first attacked the person who entered).
- Then the Troll grabbed his leg (the scout of the bandits was bitten by the Dog).
- Shortly after that, the giant struck him with a terrible blow (The donkey kicked the robber).
- Later, some mysterious creature, making terrible sounds, drove him out of the house (as we understand, the Rooster was wailing and waving its wings).
Hearing this terrible story, the frightened bandits decided to leave theirrefuge and never to return there again. Thus, the heroes of the Bremen Town Musicians - the Donkey, the Rooster, the Cat and the Dog - took possession of all the we alth stolen and hidden in this dwelling by the robbers.
The plot of the Soviet cartoon
One day, itinerant artists perform in front of the royal castle. The performance is attended by the Princess. The protagonist of the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" falls in love with her at first sight, and the young lady of royal blood reciprocates. However, the king kicks the musicians out after they perform one of their numbers unsuccessfully, so that the minstrel is temporarily unable to see his beloved.
In the next key scene, the heroes discover the bandit's house. Having overheard the conversation of the robbers, the friends learn that the Atamansha and her three assistants want to rob the royal cortege. A little later, friends drive the bandits out of the hut, and themselves change into their clothes and then kidnap the King, who is tied to a tree and left in the forest near the bandits' hut.
The soon kidnapped King hears someone nearby singing a song about unrequited love. The king begins to call for help, and soon, to his delight, the Troubadour appears. The minstrel rushes to the hut, where he and his friends create a noise of struggle and mayhem, after which he emerges from there as a winner and frees the King, who, in gratitude for his salvation, takes him to his daughter. After that, the castle beginsa festivity at which there was no place for the friends of the Troubadour. The donkey, rooster, dog and cat leave the palace grounds at dawn in a sad mood. However, the Troubadour was not going to leave his comrades and, together with his chosen one, soon joins them. The company of musicians is going to new adventures already in an expanded line-up.
Troubadour was originally conceived as a buffoon and had to wear a cap on his head, but the creator of the cartoon, Inessa Kovalevskaya, rejected this version of the hero's appearance proposed by production designer Max Zherebchevsky. Once, in one of the foreign fashion magazines, she saw a boy dressed in tight jeans and cut his hair like members of The Beatles, and decided that her character would look like him. The prototype of the Princess is the wife of one of the scriptwriters of this animated project, Yuri Entin, Marina. The heroine was rewarded with a funny hairstyle with tails sticking out in different directions by the assistant production designer Svetlana Skrebneva.
Bandits and the King
Forest bandits were copied from the heroes of Gaidai's comedy films - Coward, Experienced and Dunce, who were embodied on the screen by artists Georgy Vitsin, Evgeny Morgunov and Yuri Nikulin. The king was invented to look like the heroes of the actor Erast Garin, who at that time often played similar characters in various fairy tales, such as Cinderella, Half an hour for miracles. The prototype of the Atamansha is the wife of director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, TamaraVishneva, who at that time worked as a ballerina at the Operetta Theater. Oleg Anofriev, who voiced this heroine, tried to make his Atamansha speak in the manner of actress Faina Ranevskaya.
Who sang in The Bremen Town Musicians
Initially, it was thought that different artists would perform the songs of the heroes of the Bremen Town Musicians, whose photos are posted here. The song of the Atamansha was proposed to Zinovy Gerdt, the parts of the Donkey and the Dog were to be performed by Oleg Yankovsky and Yuri Nikulin, the Cat was to speak in the voice of Andrei Mironov, and the King was to speak in the voice of Georgy Vitsin. However, only Oleg Anofriev arrived at the Melodiya studio on the night of the recording, who appeared there only to say that due to illness he would not be able to sing his part. As a result, almost all the songs from the cartoon were performed by Oleg Anofriev, who could not only sing the part of the Princess, and she went to vocalist Elmira Zherzdeva, classmate of Gennady Gladkov. The donkey in this cartoon spoke in the voice of the poet Anatoly Gorokhov.
Critic reviews
After the release of the cartoon, director Inessa Kovalevskaya was accused of being under the "pernicious influence of the West" and of being an amateur in her work.
There was an opinion that during one of the performances in the Kremlin Palace, singer Oleg Anofriev, at the moment when he sang the phrase “Tempting vaults will never replace freedom for us”, waved his hand around the entire hall, in which there were also membersgovernment, which, as the media later claimed, was hostile to them and the performer of the song from the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" was allegedly forbidden to sing it shortly after. Oleg Anofriev himself claims that this is not true, because in the Brezhnev era he never performed at the Kremlin Palace.
In closing
In 1973, the continuation of the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" was released under the title "In the footsteps of the Bremen town musicians", in which a new character appears - the Brilliant Detective, sent by the King to find the missing daughter and return her to the palace.
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