Road tale

A musical tale of fidelity, love, friendship. The heroes of the film are cars. The main character - a blue truck of the Multikar brand - meets a beautiful passenger car along the way. He falls in love with her, but at first she rejects him, but then she still begins to feel for him. On the highway, a large truck chasing a pair, similar to the ZIL-130 , has the ability to scam and mock everyone. By the way, he appears at the beginning of the cartoon, where he first pushes Multikar to the intersection, wanting to slip through quickly, and then he pours it with dirty water from the puddle. He chases the car, but the Multikar boldly hits him, and then breaks. The damaged ZIL is forced to retreat. After that, Multicar is sent to the factory, where it is being restored. Beloved is looking for him, but can not find her boyfriend among other "Multicars". In the end, "Multicar" and his lover find each other, thanks to the melody sounded on the day they met. At the end of the cartoon, the characters ride along the road towards sunset and in front of them the traffic lights are green.

• Director - Harry Bardin
• Screenwriter - Harry Bardin
• Set Designer: Elena Fedorova
• Composer - Sergey Anashkin
• Operator - Kabul Rasulov
• Sound engineer - Boris Filchikov
• Animation artists - Anatoly Abarenov , Renata Mirenkova , Olga Orlova , Vitaly Bobrov, Vladimir Krumin
• Editor - Elena Mikhailova
• Director of the picture - Ninel Lipnitskaya
• The creators are given on the credits of the cartoon

• 1981 - MIFF Diploma
• 1982 - ICF Diploma in Tampere ( Finland )

In Russia, in the 1990s, it was produced at the VHS by the Close-Up Film Association. Also since the mid-1990s, it has been released on Video CDs.

In 2003, the Krupny Plan film association released on VHS a restored version of the cartoon in the animated film collection "Harry Bardin's Animated Films, Issue 3". In addition to him, VHS contained other Harry Bardin films: “Conflict”, “Tyap-Lyap, Painters”, “Break”, “Banquet”, “Marriage”, “Freaks” and “Adagio”. On DVD, it was released by Soyuz Video.

The cartoon has been reprinted repeatedly on DVD in cartoon collections:

• “Uncle Styopa is a policeman” , “Soyuzmultfilm”, cartoons on the disk:

“ Uncle Styopa is a policeman ” (1964), “ Dangerous prank ” (1954), “ Footprints on the pavement ” (1964), “Pathfinder” (1963), “Teddy bear on the road” (1965), “You can and cannot” (1964) ), “The Brave Inspector Mamochkin ” (1977), “The Road Tale” (1981).
(Source - Animator.ru)

• Cartoon "Road Tale". Page on the official website of Harry Bardin
• Road Tale on the Internet Movie Database
• "Road Tale" on " Animator.ru "
• "Road Tale" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"