Strekoza i muravey

19131913
5min

All summer, the grasshopper sings and plays music with friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building a shelter. The grasshopper makes fun of the ant's efforts, but when... Read allAll summer, the grasshopper sings and plays music with friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building a shelter. The grasshopper makes fun of the ant's efforts, but when winter comes, things are much different.All summer, the grasshopper sings and plays music with friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building a shelter. The grasshopper makes fun of the ant's efforts, but when winter comes, things are much different.

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Director
- Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writers
- Ivan Andreyevich Krylov(fable)
- Wladyslaw Starewicz

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In the heart of the busy, bustling-with-insects forest, the ant, nature's humble and indefatigable worker, toils away under the scorching summer sun, preparing for the imminent winter. However, when you are a beautiful, cheerful, and tall grasshopper, you have all the time in the world to have fun with your friends, and work is nothing but a waste of time. But, now that chilly autumn has arrived and the leaves begin to fall from the trees, the frivolous grasshopper, who hasn't worked a day in his life and has spent the entire summer singing and dancing, is starting to see the error of his ways. Will the hard-working ant lend the grasshopper a helping hand? —Nick Riganas

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Trivia
In the animated film, instead of a dragonfly, a grasshopper participates. According to D. Kobyakov, in the fable the word "dragonfly" meant the grasshopper, since in the XIX century both insects were called so.

Connections
Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: Az orosz és a szovjet némafilm (1989)

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Enjoyable & Nicely Made

This little feature is enjoyable and nicely made. The stop-action animation still looks very good, and it is also imaginative. The story comes from Krylov's fable of "The Dragonfly and the Ant", which in turn was a Russian version of the familiar fable about the fun-loving grasshopper and the hard-working ant.

The story itself is simple, but Starewicz takes advantage of the opportunities to add visual detail. The insect models look like real insects, but their actions are believable imitations of human behavior. The attention to detail makes most scenes worth watching carefully. Except for the age of the physical print, which leaves some of the images now a little blurry, everything holds up well. It's entertaining to watch, and the point of the story is not lost, either.

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