The Tale of Tsar Saltan () is a 1984 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by Lev Milchin and Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is an adaptation of the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. There are few words in the film besides those of the poem itself, which is read from beginning to end by the narrator and the voice actors. Some portions of the poem are skipped.
The movie was adapted in English in the 1990s by Films by Jove for the series Stories from My Childhood.
Plot Nearly identical to that of the original poem.
Three maidens under a window spun late in the evening ... And then much that was: both love, and slander, both treachery, and miracles, and set of magic adventures, and thirty three athletes, and, of course, happy end ...
Adventures of the brave tsarevitch Gvidon, the great tsarevna-Swan and the tsar Saltan will remind that love, fidelity and strength of mind always win!
Creators English Russian Directors Lev MilchinIvan Ivanov-Vano Лев МильчинИван Иванов-Вано Scenario Lev MilchinIvan Ivanov-Vano Лев МильчинИван Иванов-Вано Art directors Lev MilchinIvan Ivanov-Vano Лев МильчинИван Иванов-Вано Artists Irina SvetlitsaIgor OleynikovMarina IgnatenkoI. TroyanovaV. MaksimovichT. GerasimenkoG. StepanenkoL. Alyokhina Ирина СветлицаИгорь ОлейниковМарина ИгнатенкоИ. ТрояноваВ. МаксимовичТ. ГерасименкоГ. СтепаненкоЛ. Алёхина Animators Marina RogovaNikolay FyodorovAnatoliy AbarenkoAndrei IgnatenkoVladimir ZarubinYuriy MeshcheryakovMarina VoskanyantsAntonina AlyoshinaAleksandr PanovVladimir KruminSergei AvramovViktor Likhachyov Марина РоговаНиколай ФёдоровАнатолий АбареновАндрей ИгнатенкоВладимир ЗарубинЮрий МещеряковМарина ВосканьянцАнтонина АлёшинаАлександр ПановВладимир КруминСергей АврамовВиктор Лихачёв Camera operator Mikhail Druyan Михаил Друян Executive producer Liliana Monakhova Лилиана Монахова Composer Mikhail Meyerovich Михаил Меерович Sound operator Boris Filchikov Борис Фильчиков Script editor Raisa Frichinskaya Раиса Фричинская Voice actors Mariya VinogradovaMikhail ZiminRoman FilippovN. BoroninaA. PokrovskayaLyudmila IvanovaAnastasiya ZuyevaNikolai GrabbeBoris NovikovA. ZolotnitskiyМария ВиноградоваМихаил ЗиминРоман ФилипповН. БоронинаА. ПокровскаяЛюдмила ИвановаАнастасия ЗуеваНиколай ГраббеБорис НовиковА. Золотницкий NarratorAvangard LeontyevАвангард Леонтьев EditorNataliya StepantsevaНаталия Степанцева
Reception Fellow film director Yuri Norstein, who had previously worked with Ivanov-Vano, praised Tsar Saltan'''s direction:
Home videoThe Tale of Tsar Saltan'' was first released on home video in the early 1990s, by film association Krupny Plan. Several years later, Krupny Plan again issued the film, in a VHS collection that contained other animated adaptations of Pushkin's fairy tales. The film was later released by original producer Soyuzmultfilm. In the 2000s it was reissued on DVD by both Soyuzmultfilm and Krupny Plan, and in 2003 with Soyuzmultfilm's collection "A Gold Collection of Favourite Cartoons”.
See also History of Russian animation List of animated feature-length films List of films based on poems
External links The film at the Animator.ru (English and Russian)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) at Animatsiya.net, with subtitles in several languages including English The film at myltik.ru