The Enchanted Boy (, Zakoldovanyy malchik) is a 1955 Soviet/Russia traditionally animated feature film directed by Vladimir Polkovnikov and Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. The film is an adaptation of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf and was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
In 2007 the film's image and sound were restored by the Russian company Krupnyy Plan, who released it on video and DVD packaged together with Cipollino, a 1961, 40-minute feature film directed by Boris Dyozhkin. No English-subtitled version has been released.
Plot The naughty boy Nils, who delights in torturing animals, is bewitched by a tomte. Now shrunken to a small size and able to talk to animals, he flies across Lapland on the backs of wild geese. During these dangerous travels he does many noble deeds, and, at the same time, searches for the tomte who would take the spell away.
Creators English Russian Director-producers Vladimir PolkovnikovAlexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya Владимир ПолковниковАлександра Снежко-Блоцкая Scenario Mikhail Volpin Михаил Вольпин Art directors Grazhina BrashishkityeLev MilchinRoman Kachanov Гражина БрашишкитеЛев МильчинРоман Качанов Artists Irina SvetlitsaI. ProkofyevaPyotr Korobayev Ирина СветлицаИ. ПрокофьеваПётр Коробаев Animators Konstantin ChikinTatyana TaranovichFaina YepifanovaL. PopovVadim DolgikhBoris MeyerovichLev PozdneyevRenata MirenkovaIgor PodgorskiyFyodor KhitrukVladimir KruminGennadiy NovozhilovBoris Chani Константин ЧикинТатьяна ТарановичФаина ЕпифановаЛ. ПоповВадим ДолгихБорис МееровичЛев ПозднеевРената МиренковаИгорь ПодгорскийФёдор ХитрукВладимир КруминГеннадий НовожиловБорис Чани Camera operator Mikhail Druyan Михаил Друян Composer Vladimir Yurovskiy Владимир Юровский Sound operator Nikolai Prilutskiy Николай Прилуцкий Voice actors Valentina Sperantova (Nils)Alexey KonsovskiyTatyana StrukovaAnatoly Kubatsky (Gnome)Erast Garin (Martin)Georgy Vitsin (Rozenbaum)Georgiy Millyar Валентина СперантоваАлексей КонсовскийТатьяна СтруковаАнатолий КубацкийЭраст ГаринГеоргий ВицинГеоргий Милляр Editor Nina Mayorova Нина Майорова
Video In the early nineties the animated film was released on videotapes by the film association Krupnyy Plan. In the middle of the 1990s, it was included in the collection "The Best Soviet Animated Films" by Studio PRO Video and in the collection of animated films of a film studio Soyuzmultfilm.
See also History of Russian animation List of animated feature-length films
External links
(official Russian) (Russian with English subtitles) The Enchanted Boy at the Animator.ru The Enchanted Boy at Myltik.ru The Enchanted Boy at Krupnyy Plan