“Boba and the Elephant” is a Soviet full - length color feature film for children, staged at the Lenfilm film studio in 1972 by director August Baltrushaitis .
| Bob and elephant | |
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| Genre | A film for children animal film |
| Producer | August Baltrushaitis |
| Author script | Victor Golyavkin |
| In the main cast | Denis Kucher Arina Arakelova Helium Sysoev Irina Kuberskaya George Shtil |
| Operator | Nikolay Stroganov |
| Composer | Stanislav Pozhlakov |
| Film company | Film Studio "Lenfilm" . Association of television films |
| Duration | 63 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1972 |
| IMDb | ID 0315848 |
Content
Story
Bob's five-year-old boy spends time at the zoo , where his mother sells ice cream. His friendship with an elephant is envied by the daughter of a zoo minister, Marina. And she manages to convince Bob that all elephant games are his own fun. After that, Bob does not come to the elephant.
When the visitors dispersed in the evening, the elephant sets off to look for his little friend in the city, causing confusion among the residents with his appearance. Only Bob and Marina can return the elephant back to the zoo.
Cast
Starring
- Denis Kucher - Bob (the role was voiced by Margarita Korabelnikova )
- Arina Arakelova - Marina
- Helium Sysoev - a zoo minister, Marina's father
- Irina Kuberskaya - Boba's mom, an ice cream seller at the zoo
- Georgy Shtil - Igor Arkadevich, director of the zoo
- Yuri Solovyov - tank captain
Cast
- Boris Arakelov - police lieutenant
- Elena Anderegg - Grandma Boba
- Tatyana Buzyan - episode
- Lilia Gurova - woman in line
- German Kolushkin - truck driver
- Vladimir Kostin - policeman
- Boris Leskin - chief circus administrator
- Alexander Lipov - a policeman on a motorcycle
- Alexey Smirnov - driver of the irrigation machine
- Anatoly Stepanov - a policeman on duty in the department
- Arkady Trusov - watchman at the zoo
- Lyubov Tishchenko - ticket taker
- Oleg Khromenkov - truck driver
- Vera Titova - passenger of the bus ( not indicated in credits )
Camera crew
- Script writer - Victor Golyavkin
- Stage Director: August Baltrushaitis
- Chief Operator - Nikolay Stroganov
- Set Designer: Larisa Shilova
- Composer - Stanislav Pozhlakov
- Sound Engineer - Arnold Shargorodsky
- Director - Olga Baranova
- Operator - A. Gorbonosov
- Lyrics - Gleb Gorbovsky
- Editor - Nikita Chirskov
- Costume Designer - L. Dudko
- Makeup - G. Vdovichenko
- Installation - Tatyana Pulina
- Elephant trainer - Boris Baranov
- Assistants:
- Director - B. Manilova, V. Kravchenko
- operator - K. Tikhomirov
- Combined Shooting:
- Operator - Dmitry Zhelubovsky
- Artist - V. Solovyov
- Leningrad State Concert Orchestra
running - Anatoly Badchen - Director of the picture - Andrey Lavrov
Movie Music
- The song “Pink Elephant” (music. Stanislav Pozhlakov to verses by Gleb Gorbovsky ) performed by Dima and Ira Kiryukhin (?) Sounds in the film.
Where the baobabs climbed the slope
There lived a pink elephant in a clearing.
Maybe he was a little bit gray
He wore shoes the hundredth size ...
- The song “Top-Top” (also to the music of S. Pozhlakov) performed by Maya Kristalinskaya sounds on the radio air of the zoo.
Song "Pink Elephant"
The song "Pink Elephant", written for the film by Stanislav Pozhlakov to the verses of Gleb Gorbovsky , gained special popularity after the film’s release [1] . She entered the repertoire of many children's vocal groups, it is recommended to listen to a lesson in literary reading in elementary grades when studying the work of Gleb Gorbovsky [2] [3] .
The entertainer of the song was Zhenya Osin . The song “Pink Elephant” was included in his 2001 album “Bagel and Loaf” [4] . The song was included in the repertoire of Elena Dryatsky .
Facts
- The film starred the pet of the Leningrad Zoo, the African elephant Bobo (the only African elephant contained in this zoo in its entire history) [5] . The elephant also starred in the films Today is a New Attraction , Starozhil and others [5] . According to the memoirs of the artist Vladimir Svetozarov , during the entire filming period, Bobo lived on the Lenfilm , walked in the kindergarten of the film studio and was a universal favorite [1] .
- In 1975, the Leningrad publishing house "Children's Literature" published a film novel by V. Golyavkin "Bob and Bobosh" based on the script of the film with illustrations by Svetozar Ostrov (circulation - 150,000 copies) [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Oksana Yarmoshina . “They drove along the street and fed a bun ...” " Evening Petersburg " No. 219 (24775) from November 30, 2012.
- ↑ O.S. Cooper . Lesson in literary reading, grade 2. G. Gorbovsky. "Pink Elephant". , xana75.rusedu.net.
- ↑ Elena Levitskaya . "The most ordinary miracle . " Methodical portal.
- ↑ Eugene Osin. Cover of the bagel and loaf
- ↑ 1 2 V.E. Garutt . “Elephants in St. Petersburg” Archived copy of January 23, 2010 on Wayback Machine , part 4, lenzoo.ru.
- ↑ V. Golyavkin . "Bob and Bobosh" (film story). - L .: Children's literature, 1975 .-- 63 p. 150,000 copies, book-illustration.ru.
Links
- "Bob and the elephant" . State Register of Films . Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Date of treatment May 17, 2013. Archived May 25, 2013.
- “Boba and the Elephant” (unavailable link from 05/17/2013 [2274 days] - history ) Annotated catalog of films of the Lenfilm film studio 1918-2003
- "Bob and the Elephant" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"
- "Bob and the elephant" . Television and feature films . TV channel "Culture". Date of treatment May 17, 2013. Archived May 25, 2013.
- "Bob and the Elephant" on Ruskino
- “Bob and the Elephant” on the Internet Movie Database