Maria, Mirabella

Maria, Mirabella (1982)

Maria, Mirabela

Two little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep catching fire, and a butterfly who's afraid of flying. To help their new friends, the girls must carry them to a sorceress who lives deep in the forest.

Date of release
1982-03-03
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Family
Director
Ion Popescu-Gopo, Nataliya Bodyul
Collection
Maria and Mirabella Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Maria, Mirabela is a live-action/animated film jointly produced by Romanian and Soviet movie studios. The Romanian premiere took place on 21 December 1981 in Bucharest, The Soviet premiere took place on March 3, 1982 in Moscow.

Production

The film starred Romanian actors Gilda Manolescu (Maria), Medeea Marinescu (Mirabela), Ingrid Celia (Fairy of the Forest) and the film director, Ion Popescu-Gopo (Lord of Time). Musical lyrics were written Grigore Vieru and translated into Russian by Valentin Berestov and Eugene Agranovici. Music was composed by Eugen Doga and performed by Romanian Radio and Television Orchestra, conducted by Cornel Popescu.

Gopo used 8 actors and some clay models at first. Later the models were edited from the movie and were then replaced by the animated characters. The beginning of the movie is entirely animated, but the ending is almost entirely live action.

The soundtrack of the Soviet version was authored by Dan Ionescu and Vladimir Kutuzov and character animation was done by Boris Kotov. Editors were V. Istrate, M. Gaspar, and N. Savitsev. The Russian version of the film's theme song was performed by Leonid Serebrennikov.

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