Mom for a Mammoth Baby
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| Directed by | Oleg Churkin[1] |
| Written by | Dina Nepomnyashchaya[2] |
| Produced by | Lydia Varentsova |
| Starring | Klara Rumyanova |
| Cinematography | Igor Shkamarda |
| Edited by | Marina Trusova |
| Music by | Vladimir Shainsky[1] |
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Running time | 8 min.[1][3] |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian[1] |
Mom for a Mammoth Baby (Russian: Мама для мамонтёнка, romanized: Mama dlya mamontyonka) is a 1981 Soviet animated film by the Studio Ekran.[1]
The song that the Baby Mammoth sings on the way across the ocean ("Across the blue sea, to the green land I sail on my white ship...") is currently the Russian unofficial anthem of institutions for orphans and children left without parental care. In it, each child expresses the hope that someone will definitely need him or her and that he or she will find long-awaited happiness in a new family.[2]
Plot
A cartoon about the fate of a baby mammoth who accidentally escaped the extinction of mammoths (froze in the permafrost, and then thawed) and is now looking for his mother. The baby mammoth meets a polar bear cub and a walrus. The old wise grandfather Walrus tells the baby mammoth that far to the south there is a huge continent where animals live that look like him, only without fur. Maybe his mother is there?
A baby mammoth on an ice floe sets off on a long voyage across a huge ocean. He reaches Africa, where he meets a monkey and a hippopotamus, and finds a new mother an elephant. Now he is not alone, and he has a real friendly family.
Voice cast
- Klara Rumyanova as Baby Mammoth[1]
- Zinovy Gerdt as Walrus[1]
- Grigory Tolchinsky as Polar Bear; text from the author[1]
- Rina Zelyonaya as Elephant; Aunt Begemotikha[1]
- Zinaida Naryshkina as Monkey[1]
See also
- The Baby Mammoth Dima