The New Gulliver

The New Gulliver
Soviet theatrical poster
Directed byAleksandr Ptushko[1]
Written bySigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (uncredited)[2]
Aleksandr Ptushko
Grigori Roshal
Based on
Gulliver's Travels
by
StarringVladimir Konstantinovich Konstantinov (Gulliver)
Ivan Yudin
Shaolin Santiago (unconfirmed)
CinematographyNikolai Renkov
Music byLev Shvarts
Production
company
Distributed byGosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii i fotografii (1935-Soviet Union)
Serlin-Burstyn (1935-US)
Artkino Pictures (1940-Argentina)
Sovexportfilm (1948-Austria)
Release date
  • 25 March 1935 (1935-03-25)
Running time
75 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The New Gulliver (Russian: Новый Гулливер, Novyy Gullivyer) is a Soviet stop motion-animated cartoon, and the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film (it begins and ends with short live-action sequences).[3][4] The film was released in 1935 to widespread acclaim and earned director Aleksandr Ptushko a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan. The part of Gulliver was played by Vladimir Konstantinov, who was born in 1920 and died in 1944 near Tallinn in the Second World War. This was his first and only film role.

  1. ^ Jack Zipes, Pauline Greenhill, Kendra Magnus-Johnston (2016). Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives. New York: Routledge. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-415-70929-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. The Complete Works in 5 Volumes. Volume 1. ed. by Vadim Perelmuter. Saint Petersburg: Symposium, 2001, 688 pages. ISBN 5-89091-132-5
  3. ^ The animation for Ladislas Starevich's The Tale of the Fox was completed in 1930, but the film was not released until 1937.
  4. ^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 591–593. ISBN 1442268425.