Clew (cartoon)

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

• Not a single word is pronounced in the cartoon, only music sounds.

• In 2002, it was released on VHS and Video CDs in the collection of Masters of Russian Animation with English subtitles, and then on DVD: Masters of Russian Animation Volume 1. Cartoons in the collection: “ The story of a crime ”, “The man in the frame ”, “ My green crocodile ”, “ Once upon a time there was Kozyavin ”, “Mountain of dinosaurs”, “ Spy passions ”, “ Glass harmonica ”, “Tangle”, “ Kaleidoscope -68. Hippopotamus "," Film, film, film . " ^[2]

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In the cartoon "Tangle", based on the tale of O. Dryz, everything is built on swift action, and the words here, it turns out, are not needed at all. The "ball" seems very simple, concise and "compact." But his images are extremely capacious in content and artistically expressive. In an irreconcilable conflict, two opposing principles collide - the creative one, with its beauty and generosity, personified in the yarn itself, and the selfish, selfish and selfish, embodied in the old woman. Such a compositional technique is dramatically very effective and winning.

An old grandmother, with her face like a baked apple, in picturesque rags of a mat, covering it like a sheepskin coat, slowly wanders in the winter bad weather. And suddenly, carried away by a gust of wind, a fluffy woolen ball rolls up to her feet. He turns into a small curly cheerful little lamb, which fondles her, as if offering to warm her, wrap up from a piercing frosty whirlwind. A tightly twisted woolen thread, as it were, extends to it, clings to it. And the old woman begins to quickly and quickly knit, instantly dressing herself in a beautiful warm dress. Or rather, it’s not knitting, but some greedy convulsive movements of the all-consuming and growing passion in its fury.
As in Pushkin's Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, the old woman’s “appetite” is growing, and her desire to snatch as much as possible becomes rampant. Such a plot move allows the director N. Serebryakov and production designer A. Speshneva to create an entire poem from wool in the cartoon. Everything is knitted from threads - from a masterfully jumping, shimmering in white and pink, expertly shot by the lamb's influxes, we move to a continuous conveyor of all kinds of objects, starting from clothes - socks, sweaters, caps - to a rocking chair and other furniture and to patterned walls of the house, a kerosene lamp playing gramophones, samovar with a teapot. In a word, one should only wish the old woman - and all that she thought about appears as if by magic. A whole world of wool arises, sparkling, multicolored, infinitely diverse in forms and methods of knitting, elegant and joyful, like an inventive folk ornament. This is where N. Serebryakov brilliantly unfolded his love for the texture of the material, the ability to artistically beat her in a puppet cartoon, to make him serve a certain idea.

Curious neighbors come to visit, and the old woman hides the lamb in the chest. A greedy hand strokes a suffocating animal - such is her mean gesture of encouraging a little artist. "Guests are an expressive series of typical puppet" portraits. "But their function in the cartoon is limited - they are called to be public, witnesses of success, to express growing surprise. A huge quadrangular mouth of gray hair is widely opened the old man, the neighbor’s mouth in a sheepskin coat, is extended as oblong as a keyhole, and the old woman seeks to surprise them with her new wealth, her new miracles. She doesn’t like her looking out of the mirror a wrinkled face, and she decides to tie herself a new, young one. Indeed, this miracle is also available to the omnipotent magical art of knitting. Instead of the old wrinkles, a delicate knitted cheek and eye of a beautiful woman appear. But here, at the most climax, decisive moment, the magical power of half-dead, the lamb choking in the chest runs dry, the woolen thread ends, it turns out to be naked, now the old woman no longer needs it, she takes it out of the chest, shakes it and, convinced of its complete uselessness, angrily throws it out the door, in the cold. But the miracle continues, the thread stretches, only now in the opposite direction. Runs, runs away the lamb, again overgrown with curly hair and turning into a ball. And again, as if by magic, the threads of the carpets, knitted chairs and walls of the house open, the whole stuffy and dark world of the old woman breaks open and is completely destroyed, and she herself becomes a victim of this universal decay of forms and connections.

• Asenin S.V.Wizards of the screen: Directions of searches. Movie dolls of Nikolai Serebryakov 3d-master.org

• Tangle on the Internet Movie Database
• "Tangle" on " Animator.ru "
• "Tangle" - Multik.ru
• "Tangle" - Cartoons
• "Tangle" on the site "Encyclopedia of domestic cinema"
• Encyclopedia of domestic cinema: Nikolay Serebryakov - TEXTS (inaccessible link)