Mashenka (cartoon)

The bear catches the lost Mashenka in the forest. But the girl turns out to be a little inept child. Fairy tales were read to her and she recognized the bear, Mikhailo Potapovich. Like the heroine of a fairy tale, Mashenka wants to help the bear, trying to act like an adult. But she is still very small. Plates are falling at Mashenka. Porridge, cooking of which seems to Masha a simple affair, runs away.

So the bear’s intention is to get a mistress in the house and, having dumped all the chores on it, calmly rest on the stove, it crashes. A child spoiling things for him is an extra burden and the bear drives away the inability. And only here the bear understands how sad he is in loneliness. After a while, Mashenka returns. The film ends with the duet Mashenka and the bear:

  Mashenka:
   When I had golden mountains
   And the rivers are full of wine
   I would give everything for affection, eyes,
   So that you own me alone.

 BEAR:
   Do not reproach unjustly
   Tell the truth are you father -
   Then free and happy
   With prayer we will go to the crown.

• Irina Muravyova - Mashenka
• Rogvold Sukhoverko - Bear

• Prize for directing at the II IFAF “Krok”, 1993 ^[1]

The cartoon has been reprinted repeatedly on DVD in cartoon collections:

• "Michal Potapych" , "Soyuzmultfilm" (distributor "Close-up"), cartoons on the disk:

“General Toptygin” (1971), “Mashenka” (1992), “ Uncle Misha ” (1970), “ Tops and Roots ” (1974), “Two Greedy Teddy Bears” (1954), “ Badass Bear ” (1955), “ Grandfather and grandson ” (1950), “ Bear is a fake leg ” (1984), “ Three Bears ” (1958). ^[2]

• "Mashenka" on " Animator.ru "
• "Mashenka" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"