AS, Karanovich and Chirkov made "Balda"! As a child, probably, when I did not yet know how to read, I reveled in fairy tales A. S. Pushkin. Perhaps, after all, I could not read, otherwise I can not explain why Pushkin’s fairy tales were read to me by the sisters alternately. I loved to listen to and then read these wonderful fairy tales: “On the Fisherman and the Fish,” “On Tsar Saltan...” and, of course, “On the Pope and His Worker Balda.”
Yes, it was a discovery for me that there is no really filmed film "The Tale of the Pop and his Worker Balda". And here people live appear on the screen, but only for the story. So in the main role - in the role of the narrator - is allocated Boris Chirkov. But there were other people in that tape. Of course, they were like spectators and did not contribute properly. Chirkov worked as a reader as, and, by and large, was required for him. I think the AU itself would approve such a competent adaptation.
To a greater extent, the emphasis is placed on dolls. Puppet cartoons used to be in large numbers. And we were raised on them, not knowing another, and not wanting to. They were painted too. And there's Balda. It’s half a movie, half a cartoon.
And so it will not be superfluous to praise the masters of puppeteers, and the people themselves who made these dolls, because they turned out as if they came off the pages of the Master! Even on the faces of the characters are displayed: the main character (such, you know, with a cunning), pop (such a miser and coward), hityas, priests, the devil that raised the mare.
Yes, this story really lifted my mood! And when this happens, the most necessary thing is to put an absolute score on this creation. I would like to see this same fairy tale as if it was shot by Alexander Rowe, that is, more people (now there are no current mountain creators nearby). But Anatoly Karanovich, I believe, with his fairy-tale cartoon with the timely opening of the curtain, where we see the narrator, also not only made the fairy tale a good fit for viewing, but even this “Balda” became like a banner!
10 out of 10