Prometheus (cartoon)

The story of the titan Prometheus , who stole fire from Olympus for people and was severely punished by Zeus for this: Prometheus' friend, the blacksmith Hephaestus, was forced to rive him to a rock, and every day an eagle arriving from Olympus pecked Prometheus's liver recovering during the night, knocking out the answer to the question, why he stole fire from Olympus. Neither Hephaestus, nor the eagle, nor Zeus understood the answer of Prometheus. Prometheus began to laugh at it. Zeus executed Prometheus, destroying his rock with lightning. But the torture and execution of Prometheus was not in vain - people preserved his sacred gift.

• The release of Prometheus in the cartoon is not shown, but transferred to the cartoon "Return from Olympus."
• In the cartoon, Prometheus was chained exclusively by chains; in myth, he was still nailed with an iron spike.

• Script writer: Alexey Simukov
• Director: Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
• Set Designer: Alexander Trusov
• Composer: Vitaly Geviksman
• Operator: Boris Kotov
• Sound engineer: Boris Filchikov
• Animation artists:
  • Nikolai Fedorov
  • Oleg Safronov
  • Victor Shevkov
  • Olga Orlova
  • Violetta Kolesnikova
  • Valentin Kushneryov
  • Vladimir Shevchenko
• Editor: Arkady Snesarev
• Editor: Margarita Mikheeva
• Assistants: A. Goreva, T. Lytko, D. Anpilov, M. Popova
• Director of the picture: Lyubov Butyrina
• Roles voiced:
  • Alexey Konsovsky - Prometheus
  • Vsevolod Larionov - an eagle
  • Anna Kamenkova - girl
  • Evgeny Gerasimov - a young man
  • Konstantin Nikolaev - Hephaestus
  • Mikhail Pogorzhelsky - Zeus

In the 1980s, in the USSR, a cartoon was produced on VHS by the publication “Video Program of the USSR State Committee for Cinematography”. In Russia in the 1990s it was released by the Krupny Plan film association on VHS, from the mid-1990s on the Video CDs in the collection along with the cartoons Return from Olympus and Heracles at Admet.

The cycle of films by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotsky on the myths of ancient Greece is widely known. In collaboration with the artist Alexander Trusov, they presented to the audience their vision of gods, ancient heroes, jellyfish, the Minotaur and other characters that were unusual for the viewer. In this genre, Snezhko-Blotskaya also became a pioneer and managed to remove five paintings: “Return from Olympus” (1969), “Labyrinth” (1971), “Argonauts” (1972), “Perseus” (1973), “Prometheus” (1974 )

- Sergey Kapkov ^[1]

• Prometheus on the Internet Movie Database
• "Prometheus" on " Animator.ru "