How an old man sold a cow

Noisy, buzzing village fair . Everyone sells and buys, buffoons walk around and amuse honest people. Everyone laughs, and jokes fly away without ceasing. Innkeepers praise bagel tea, and people make noise and walk. One unlucky old man is trying to sell his sick cow, which also does not give milk. The day is heading towards evening, but things are not going on - an overly honest seller has come across. Instead of writing something about the merits of the animal, he honestly tells customers about its shortcomings.

One guy, a young buffoon who saw how the old man was selling his cow, decided to come to the rescue. When the next gentleman comes up, the guy paints the advantages of a cow in the brightest colors. A gullible buyer is ready to lay out his hard-earned money, but here the old man cannot stand it and decides what such a wonderful animal will come in handy for him.

• Screenwriter: Sergei Mikhalkov
• Director: Alexey Solovyov
• Set Designer: Marina Zotova
• Operator: Joseph Golomb
• Sound producer: Vitaliy Azarovsky
• Multipliers: Boris Savin , M. Karpinskaya
• Roles voiced by Vyacheslav Innocent
• Dolls and decorations:
  • Love doronin
  • Margarita Bogatskaya
  • Galina Kruglova
  • Nadezhda Lyarskaya
  • Evgeny Baskakov
  • Galina Filippova
  • Nina Panteleeva
• Editor: Lyubov Georgieva
• Editor: L. Stefanova
• Director: E. Bobrovskaya

• The cartoon is based on a comic Russian folk tale set forth in verse by Sergei Mikhalkov. The poem was included in the poet’s books: “For Big and Small” (Moscow, 1944) under the title “ Eccentric ”; “Poems” (Moscow, 1946) entitled “ How an old man sold a cow in the market ”; as well as in the collection “Pioneer Theater” (Moscow, also 1946), the work was published under the name “ Thin Cow ”. Illustrators of the tale were Vladimir Konashevich and Boris Prophets .
• In the same year, the continuation of the animated film “The Greedy Rich ” was released, which was also shot in one of the works of Sergei Mikhalkov and had the same success. A buffoon and a rich man appear in this cartoon as the main characters. The old man who was selling his cow appears in the cartoon as a furrier . Cow buyers also appear in the film - rich husband and wife from the first film.

Until the mid-1990s, Studio PRO Video released this cartoon on VHS. In 1996, the cartoon was released on VHS by the Videostok edition in the Treasure cartoon collection (cartoons on the cassette - “The Greedy Rich ”, “ How Overwhelmed by Longing ”, “ Srednyuga ”, “ Golden Words ”, “ From the Cannon to the Moon and Without stops ”,“ How Ivan Molodets saved the tsar’s daughter ”,“ Meet the grandmother ”,“ Treasure ”and“ Why the cat was called a cat ”). In the 1990s, he was released in the collection of the best Soviet cartoons Tsarevna Frog, Go there, I don’t know where , By pike command, The greedy rich man and How the old man sold a cow Studio Studio Video .

In the 2000s, the cartoon was repeatedly reprinted on DVD in cartoon collections:

• "13 stories" , DVD, cartoons on disk:

“ Little Devil # 13 ” (1982), “ Scruffy-Over ” (1981), “ Little Devil with a Furry Tail ” (1985),
" Sick " (1986), " Once a cowboy, two cowboys " (1981), " Meet Grandma " (1984),
The Flour-Walker (1975), Why Elephants? "(1980)," Patchwork and the cloud "(1977)," Open window "(1986),
“ How the old man sold a cow ” (1980), “ House for a Leopard ” (1979), “ Notes of a Pirate ” (1989). ^[one]

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