Politics and animated film ... A phenomenal full-length Soviet animated film, released on children's screens of the USSR in 1967, deafly failed at the box office, quickly removed from the box office and put "on the shelf" in early Brezhnev times, where it lies almost still.
This cartoon turned out to be unlucky because of politics and the change of milestones in Soviet propaganda, by means of animation it conveyed to children what their parents had difficulty comprehending or did not comprehend at all, and as a result became semi-banned and now few people know, even from Wikipedia a few years ago it was cleaned for unknown sins.
The famous poem by E. Rostand Chantecler fell into the hands of Stalin’s favorite Mikhail Edisherovich Chiaureli in bad times. There is no doubt that Misha was warmed up: anyone will not be instructed to make the landmark film of 1949. “Masterpiece” of the deflection before Stalin – the movie “The Fall of Berlin”.
In an unfortunate hour, they began to work on the topic for adults about the role of the individual in history, or rather, Stalin’s favorites began to comprehend the phenomenon of the personality cult in Khrushchev’s times, taking Rostand’s play as a basis. Only not for Soviet society, which was broken by ideas about ideals, was this luxury.
And the verdict of the film was made after Khrushchev retired, about whom they scolded: “There is a cult, but there is no personality.” Probably, Suslov was not without in determining the fate of the film, and it was banned, like many things in those days, just in case, and then “however it happened.”
Those who wish can find the full version of the film in the networks and imagine what boredom was in the cinemas at children's sessions, since they tried to show children an adult theme in cartoonish and special Soviet "Aesop" language. For those who are interested in the evolution of Soviet consciousness, the film will become an indispensable tool.