Wheel of Fortune (cartoon)

On the screen is Ancient Greece . Daedalus created wings - Icarus learns to fly. Hercules tames Kerber's three-headed dog. The god of war Ares destroys temples and marble statues, a stone head that has flown away knocks Hercules down and the dog runs away from him. Hercules knocks on the forehead of a stone head and calls Ares to a sports match. Zeus laughs and approves the competition. Hephaestus kindles a fire in the cup of a volcano. Ares removes his armor and weapons. The winged messenger of Zeus announces the beginning of the competition with the sounds of a trumpet. First - the fight, then throwing the disc. Hercules gets a disk on the table of Zeus, Ares simulates a throw and hides the disk in a loincloth. Zeus is angry and throws three lightning bolts at Ares. Next archery competition. Ares gets into a vase and Hercules gets into a hole from an Ares arrow. Then chariot races. Ares pushes Hercules and falls himself. The horses are the first to resort to the finish line. Next - long jump. Hercules flies on. Now running competition. Ares cheats again, and Zeus again throws lightning at him. Then weightlifting, boxing competitions. Hercules wins in a fair fight, and Zeus awards him a victory. Fortune showered Hercules with flowers and puts a winner's laurel wreath on his head. The spectators thrilled Hercules in the air, and then set up statues in his honor.

• The creators are listed on the credits of the cartoon.

Excerpt from the article:

... the largest by meter (almost 17 minutes) and, perhaps, the most successful "Olympic" work by Multtelefilm is the film by A.I. Solin "Wheel of Fortune" (1980, scriptwriter L.I. Likhodeev, production director I. A. Wheat). The script of Leonid Likhodeev initially demanded serious processing, which was produced by the director. However, due to the time spent on reworking the script, the timeline for the production of the film was very tight. This pushed Solin and Pshenichnaya to abandon backgrounds and celluloid and to choose an unusual technology: the entire film was shot on sheets of “tracing paper” (the contour is pen-shaped and colored with colored pencils), while the decoration solution is simplified to a minimum and reduced to a few details that were painted anew in each phase of the movement. The content of the work was again the fantasy on ancient Greek themes, as in the Dakhno film “How the Cossacks became Olympians”. However, this time Hercules competed with Ares, personifying sporting prowess and honesty. In the parody duel of the heroes, as in the Dakhno film, many modern sports were depicted. The story of the creation of this tape is replete with curious details. This and the attempt to bring to work Yu. I. Vizbor (unfortunately, the song he wrote for the film was not useful, but their relationship with the director did not spoil it), and the unexpected proposal of the film composer Sh. E. Callos Solin to conduct the choir during music recordings (with which Anatoly Ivanovich coped with honor, having the experience of performing, including solo, in the children's choir). The laborious film was delivered on time and was shown during the Olympics. Until now, this picture looks with interest ...

- George Borodin ^[1]

• 1980 - Diploma of the Olympic Sports Committee in Moscow ^[2]

• Olimpioniki