Thumbelina (cartoon, 1964)

One woman lived in the world and had no children.
She decided to go ...

to the witch.

She was kind and gave the woman a barley seed, from which a beautiful flower grew in a pot. When the bud opened, there was a little, little girl no more than an inch tall . Therefore, it was called Thumbelina.

Thumbelina was very friendly and sweet. She lived on the dressing table of her adoptive mother and slept in a walnut-bed. Once she was noticed by the Swamp Toad and decided that Thumbelina could become a wonderful couple for her son. At night, Toad stole a sleeping Thumbelina and brought her to her son. They placed Thumbelina on a sheet of water lily .

But the girl did not want to marry the son of Toad. She wept bitterly and Pisces came to the aid of the girl. They called the Hermit Crab, he ate a leaf stalk with his claw, Moths picked up Thumbelina's belt and the leaf swam across the water. Toads rushed in pursuit. The belt suddenly broke and the Toads almost caught up with the girl, but at that moment the May bug caught her on the fly. He moved her to a tree, where he had a dwelling, and invited Thumbelina to become his wife. Thumbelina liked the offers of the May Beetle, but the problem was that she herself did not like the friends of the Beetle, and he immediately refused it.

Poor Thumbelina was left to live in the forest alone. So she lived all summer, and in the deep autumn, a freezing Thumbelina was discovered by the Field Mouse, which sheltered her in her hole. The mouse decided to arrange the girl’s happiness by marrying her rich neighbor Mole. Mole was very wealthy and mean. He liked that Thumbelina ate very little, and he agreed to marry. The girl did not want to marry Krot and did not want to live in a dungeon. She asked to go upstairs to say goodbye to the sun, and there she unexpectedly met the Swallow, whom she once dying saved and cured.

The swallow took Thumbelina to the warm edges. There the girl was met by elves, and the Prince of elves offered her a hand and a heart.

• In the book Thumbelina changes the name at the end of the tale, this does not happen in the cartoon.
• In the book, the stalk of a leaf of a water lily, on which Thumbelina floats away from a toad, has a bite of fish. But in the cartoon, they cannot do this and turn for help to a hermit crab, which is not in the original fairy tale.
• In the cartoon, toads rush in pursuit of a floating leaf with a girl and catch up with him, the book does not mention this.
• The mole in the book has no friends, while in the cartoon they are.
• The musicians in the book were soldier ants.

Initially, in the 1980s, the cartoon was released on VHS by the Goskino USSR Video Program video company in the collection of cartoon tales by Hans Christian Andersen in the SECAM system. In Russia, from the beginning of the 1990s, it was released on VHS videotapes by the Krupny Plan film association, in 1995-1999, together with VideoMir, in the cartoon collection No. 3, Tales of H. H. Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. In the mid-1990s, Studio PRO Video and Soyuz Video were released on VHS in a cartoon collection. Produced under license with Hi-Fi Stereo sound and in the PAL system.
From the mid-1990s to the 2000s, the collection of cartoons “Tales of H. H. Andersen and the Brothers Grimm” of the Krupny Plan association was released on Video CD by Lizard .

In the early 2000s, the cartoon was restored and released on DVD by the Krupny Plan and Soyuz Video companies in the collection of cartoon fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen with Dolby Digital sound (Dolby Mono 1.0, later 2.0). It was also released on DVD in one of the editions of the Golden Collection of Favorite Cartoons.

Andersen Hans Christian. Thumbelina. - Astrel, 2012 .-- 48 p. - (SOYUZMULTFILM represents). - ISBN 978-5-271-42070-2 , 978-5-271-40534-1. (cartoon illustrations)

• Pyotr Bagrov Pig and shepherd. From Hans Christian to Christian Hans An article about the film adaptations of Andersen. " Session " number 25/26, 2005.
• Vlada Grinevski Thumbelina - a little girl with big problems

• Thumbelina on the Internet Movie Database
• Thumbelina on Big Cartoon DataBase
• "Thumbelina" on " Animator.ru "
• "Thumbelina" on the site "Encyclopedia of domestic cinema"