Stork and desert conquest An instructive cartoon based on the Uzbek fairy tale with national color: desert, drywaters, donkeys, watermelons, turbans. Beautiful animation, the same voiceover and curious historical context, relevant in 1956: the development of the inhospitable kingdom of sands. Although the main idea is not about this, it is obvious in the finale that Hassan and other workers who are oppressed by the greedy rich man are communists who are not just dreaming, but are already going to turn the desert into a flowering garden. Now this idea seems even more fantastic than the discovery of alien life, but in the middle of the XX century people seriously expected that someday on the site of the dunes will be green forests, like in the Amazon.
But what has not lost authenticity is the ridicule of greed. Nothing in Soviet cartoons looked more ridiculous and naive than a shaking capitalist. However, it must be admitted that it is in the Stork that the villain cannot be justified in any way: he thinks only of himself, although in the event of a drought he himself will suffer. Rendering not sincere, but imaginary help to the winged wanderer, he incurs a just punishment, which causes the jubilation of farmers, and at the same time plants that will receive life-giving moisture.
The moral is clear, but with animation there are some shortcomings. It is not clear why Hassan has a gray and a black beard. Artists could not decide on the age of the main character? Unlike most cartoons of the same decade, the contours look very imperceptible here, and this makes it difficult to consider the characters in detail. Fortunately, the voice George Vicin compensates for this omission. Such a timbre can boast not all.
It’s a fun, fun, and fun movie.
7 out of 10