Soviet fever dream where colors are characters and everyone's chasing a literal golden child.
In one city lived the Black Robber, the Pink King, the Blue Lady, the Green Bear and the Golden Boy. The first four heroes think that the boy is literally golden, and dream of getting him in order to fulfill their dreams.
Score
Bizarre earworm that haunts for days.
Direction
Kurchevskiy crams epic ambition into 16 minutes.
Director
Vadim Kurchevskiy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Khrushchev Thaw, when Soviet animation briefly got experimental and weird before Brezhnev slammed the door.
Kurchevskiy adapted this from a poem by Sergei Mikhalkov — yes, the guy who wrote the Soviet national anthem lyrics.
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