Russian animation: The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Updated: June 22, 2007; June 6, 2021
Click on below image to watch the film:
(this was formerly on Google Video here)
Here it is - my major Russian-English translation project for the past month. One of the most impressively-directed animated films I've ever seen. This adaptation of Kipling's short story came out in 1988 in the Soviet Union and is criminally obscure; it seems that few people in Russia know about it, and I'll bet nobody outside of Russia has even seen it.
It starts out a little slow, but if you keep watching past the two-minute mark... it gets interesting. It uses a wide variety of animation techniques and touches some rather deep and poetic themes. There's also some great avant-garde singing in it by Valentina Ponomaryova.
For more information about the film, visit its wikipedia page (though actually there's not much there because I haven't been able to find a whole lot of info).
There's a higher-quality version at Cine-clasico over here, and one at arjlover over here (you can download the ed2k or read this tutorial).
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997248/
The subtitle file can be downloaded here: http://www.portasecreta.com/english_subtitle.zip
Thanks to the Portasecreta blog for giving them a permanent location.
Click on below image to watch the film:
(this was formerly on Google Video here)
Here it is - my major Russian-English translation project for the past month. One of the most impressively-directed animated films I've ever seen. This adaptation of Kipling's short story came out in 1988 in the Soviet Union and is criminally obscure; it seems that few people in Russia know about it, and I'll bet nobody outside of Russia has even seen it.
It starts out a little slow, but if you keep watching past the two-minute mark... it gets interesting. It uses a wide variety of animation techniques and touches some rather deep and poetic themes. There's also some great avant-garde singing in it by Valentina Ponomaryova.
For more information about the film, visit its wikipedia page (though actually there's not much there because I haven't been able to find a whole lot of info).
There's a higher-quality version at Cine-clasico over here, and one at arjlover over here (you can download the ed2k or read this tutorial).
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997248/
The subtitle file can be downloaded here: http://www.portasecreta.com/english_subtitle.zip
Thanks to the Portasecreta blog for giving them a permanent location.