Old Friends

1956 0h 21m RU

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7.0

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6.7

IMDB

★7.0TMDB · 2★6.7IMDB · 90

Animation

Synopsis

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The losers the wooden football players overheard the bear's talk about the upcoming water polo championship and decided to win the main prize (the car). To participate in the match, the wooden players took paint and repainted themselves as a water polo players. They called their team "Black swans" and nobody recognized them. But since they trained little and behaved rudely during the match in the pool, they lost again

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Boris Andreyev
Arrogant Chubik (voice)
Yuliya Yulskaya
Hare (voice)
Yuri Khrzhanovsky
Bear cup / Goalkeeper (voice)
Viktoriya Ivanova
Puppet Lusya (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Mstislav Pashchenko
Writers: Mstislav Pashchenko, Boris Dyozhkin
Languages: Russian
Countries: Soviet Union

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RUNTIME

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Tight 21-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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70 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Part of the "Метеор и другие (Коллекция)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Mstislav Pashchenko, shot by Mikhail Druyan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Karen Khachaturyan. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Boris Andreyev and Yuliya Yulskaya and Yuri Khrzhanovsky carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt5560734 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Mstislav Pashchenko directs. Mikhail Druyan behind the camera. Karen Khachaturyan scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Soviet Union. Dialogue in Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 21-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
270 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Метеор и другие (Коллекция)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Mstislav Pashchenko, shot by Mikhail Druyan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Karen Khachaturyan. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Boris Andreyev and Yuliya Yulskaya and Yuri Khrzhanovsky carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt5560734 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.