Welcome (1986)
January 1, 1986Release Date
Welcome (1986)
January 1, 1986Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Anatoliy Barantsev
Beetle (voice)
Yuri Volyntsev
Elk (voice)
Lyudmila Gnilova
Squirrel (voice)
Evgeni Leonov
Bear (voice)
Klara Rumyanova
Magpie (voice)
Aleksey Borzunov
Woodpecker (voice)
Aleksandr Petrov
Art Direction
Alexey Karaev
Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1986
Original NameДобро пожаловать!
StatusReleased
Running Time10m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Welcome (‹See Tfd›Russian: Добро пожаловать) is a 1986 Soviet paint-on-glass-animated 10-minute film adapted from the 1948 children's book by Dr. Seuss Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. It is a coproduction of Sverdlovsk television studio and Gosteleradio.
Released in 1986, the film went on to win the Grand Prix at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1988 and in Los Angeles. Although the visual style is quite different, the story is mostly the same with the exception of some subtle changes — for example, the moose isn't shown rejoining his herd at the end and the squatter animals aren't stuffed and mounted. Also, none of the animals are ever named and there is no narrator. A turtle, a fox, fleas and 362 bees are absent from the moose's antlers in this film. The "bingle bug" from the original book is shown as a Colorado potato beetle. The film was directed by Alexei Karayev. The art director was Aleksandr Petrov, who would later win an Oscar for his 1999 film The Old Man and the Sea. The screenplay was written by Yury Iosifovich Koval, a renowned author.