Left-Hander (1964 film)

Left-Hander
Directed byIvan Ivanov-Vano
Vladimir Danilevich
Written byIvan Ivanov-Vano
Narrated byDmitriy Zhuravlyov
Edited byNina Mayorova
Music byAleksandr Aleksandrov
Release date
  • July 22, 1964 (1964-07-22) (USSR)
Running time
42 min. 23 sec.
CountryUSSR
LanguageRussian

Left-Hander (Russian: Левша́, 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.[1][2][3]

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

  1. ^ 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);
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.; ..."