Garri Bardin finishes filming his animated feature, "The Ugly Duckling"

[niffiwan]

First of all, an announcement: director Garri Bardin is accepting questions on the Russian forum prodisney.ru. If anyone has any questions that they'd like to ask him, I can translate them into Russian and post them there. The original thread is hereFor the past five years, Garri Bardin's Stayer Studio has been working on the animated feature "The

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[pavlovich74]

I really look forward to seeing this. Bardin is one of the best. Is international distribution possible, or will it be Russia only?

[niffiwan]

I can't think of a single Russian animated feature that has been distributed internationally, except for "The Snow Queen" back in the 1950s/1960s in the US (and that was only because its Russian origin was hidden)...

More recently, I don't think any of them have gone outside of film festivals. Cultural contact between the West and Russia goes mostly in one direction.

So no, I don't think it's very likely that it'll be released in the West except at film festivals. On the other hand, Bardin has released his previous films on home video in the West (France especially), so maybe this one will be released on DVD/Bluray eventually, at least.

[niffiwan]

But it's a good question. I'll ask...