Soyuzmultfilm will restore ten cartoons from the war and post-war years

MOSCOW, January 15 For the 80th anniversary of the Victory, Soyuzmultfilm will restore 10 cartoons from the war and post-war years for wide screening, the press service of the film studio reported.
“For the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Soyuzmultfilm will restore for wide screening animation films that were created during the years of hostilities and in the post-war period… The list of films that are planned to be restored is currently being formed,” the statement says. It is noted that restoration work, which includes the elimination of technical defects in frames that arose from the natural obsolescence of the film, will affect 10 films. After restoration, the films will be shown in cinemas as part of special screenings.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the film studio Yuliana Slashcheva emphasized that in recent years, the oldest studio in Russia, Soyuzmultfilm, has been studying, restoring and popularizing its classical heritage — for this, a special department has been created within the structure of the film studio. “Thanks to modern technological capabilities, we have returned many legendary films to the wide screen, including such absolute masterpieces as “The Nutcracker”, “The Snow Queen”, “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “Cipollino”, “The Adventures of Pinocchio” and others. Thanks to regular film screenings throughout the country, these films are revealing new facets to generations of viewers,” said Slashcheva, as quoted by the press service.

Animation historian Pavel Shvedov noted that the war and post-war periods in the history of Russian animation had a significant impact on its formation. “Films of the Great Patriotic War became an important stage in the development of our animation, significantly influencing its tone and subsequent exceptional humanistic orientation, and clear evidence of this are the films of the post-war years, among which are many masterpieces and laureates of national and international festivals — earlier, by the 75th «Soyuzmultfilm posted these films online for a wide range of viewers to celebrate the summer anniversary of the Victory,» says Shvedov.

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