The New Gulliver

The New Gulliver (1935)

Новый Гулливер

Young boy dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation.

Date of release
1935-03-25
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Family, Fantasy, Animation
Director
Aleksandr Ptushko

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Gulliver's Travels

The New Gulliver is a Soviet stop motion-animated fantasy adventure film. It was the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film. The film was released in 1935 to widespread acclaim and earned director Aleksandr Ptushko a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan. The part of Gulliver was played by Vladimir Konstantinov, who was born in 1920 and died in 1944 near Tallinn in the Second World War. This was his first and only film role.

Production

Many scenes in which dolls and the living actor participated, were removed frame by frame, as usual animation movies. Thus it was necessary to the actor not to move for a long time while phases of the movement of dolls were removed.

When scoring animated part of the movie Liliputians spoke by the accelerated voices of adults. Petya, on the contrary, spoke the slowed-down teenager's voice.

Figures of capitalists were molded in the spirit of posters of those times: ugly, big-bellied, on thin legs. At the same time each figure was peculiar, individual. Figures of workers were less ugly, but all are stuck together on one template, from plasticine, on a wire framework. Their figures entirely from one-color material, with well traced lines of persons, but thus it is impossible even to understand, whether there are shirts on them.

capitalists drive about in cars, but in ancient wigs;

Fo-Lya is represented in a dress coat, but wears the fitting leggings and a wig;

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