The Cat Who Walked by Herself

The Cat Who Walked by Herself (Russian: Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе, romanized: Koshka, kotoraya gulyala sama po sebe) is a 1988 Soviet animated feature film directed by Ideya Garanina and made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is based on Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Cat that Walked by Himself". Like the earlier Soviet animated feature Adventures of Mowgli, the film retains the dark, primal tone of Kipling's work. The production includes almost all types of animation technologies.

The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Illustration by Joseph M. Gleeson to The Cat that Walked by Himself
Directed byIdeya Garanina
Produced byIdeya Garanina
Written byIdeya Garanina
Mariya Solovyova
StarringValentina Ponomaryova
Elena Sanayeva
Georgi Burkov
Nikolai Karachentsov
Inna Churikova
Nogon Shumarov
Anna Kamenkova
Nikolai Burlyayev
Music bySofya Gubaydulina
Edited byNadezhda Treshchyova
Release date
Running time
70 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

It is not the only Soviet screen version of this fairy tale: in 1968 the director Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya at the same studio released another animated film, "The Cat Who Walked by Himself", lasting only 20 minutes.

Plot

The film is largely based on Kipling's short story, but expands it with several digressions.

Frame story

A couple - a man and a woman - put their young child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. When the child grabs her tail, the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed "a thousand years ago" that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth was emerging with early creatures among erupting volcanoes.

Narrative

The protagonists are the Wild Man and the Woman who is his mate.

Creators
EnglishRussian
Director-producer Ideya Garanina Идея Гаранина
Scenario Ideya Garanina
Mariya Solovyova		 Идея Гаранина
Мария Соловьёва
Art Director Nina Vinogradova Нина Виноградова
Animators Aleksandr Gorlenko
Violetta Kolesnikova
Aleksandr Panov
Yuriy Batanin
Vladimir Shevchenko
Anatoliy Abarenov
Olga Panokina
Akop Kirakosyan
Yelena Gavrilko
Tatyana Molodova
Lidiya Mayatnikova		 Александр Горленко
Виолетта Колесникова
Александр Панов
Юрий Батанин
Владимир Шевченко
Анатолий Абаренов
Ольга Панокина
Акоп Киракосян
Елена Гаврилко
Татьяна Молодова
Лидия Маятникова
Camera Operator Aleksandr Vikhanskiy Александр Виханский
Executive Producer Grigoriy Khmara Григорий Хмара
Composer Sofya Gubaydulina Софья Губайдулина
Sound Operators Vladimir Vinogradov
Sergei Karpov		 Владимир Виноградов
Сергей Карпов
Script Editor Raisa Frichinskaya Раиса Фричинская
Puppets / Decorations Marina Chesnokova
Natalia Grinberg
Vladimir Abbakumov
E. Belova
Mikhail Koltunov
Aleksandr Maksimov
O. Potanin
Pavel Gusev
Vladimir Alisov
Anna Vetyukova
Svetlana Znamenskaya
Nikolay Zaklyakov
Liliana Lyutinskaya
V. Platonov
Nina Moleva
Oleg Masainov
Natalia Barkovskaya		 Марина Чеснокова
Наталия Гринберг
Владимир Аббакумов
Э. Белова
Михаил Колтунов
Александр Максимов
О. Потанин
Павел Гусев
Владимир Алисов
Анна Ветюкова
Светлана Знаменская
Николай Закляков
Лилиана Лютинская
В. Платонов
Нина Молева
Олег Масаинов
Наталия Барковская
Sculptor S. Aseryants С. Асерьянц
Voice Actors Valentina Ponomaryova
Elena Sanayeva (Cow)
Georgi Burkov (Man, Dog)
Nikolai Karachentsov (Horse)
Inna Churikova (Cat)
Nogon Shumarov
Anna Kamenkova (Woman)
Ivan Burlyayev (Child)		 Валентина Пономарёва
Елена Санаева
Георгий Бурков
Николай Караченцов
Инна Чурикова
Ногон Шумаров
Анна Каменкова
Иван Бурляев
Editor Nadezhda Treshchyova Надежда Трещёва

Home video

The film is available on DVD in the collection Золотая коллекция мультфильмов 9 ("Golden Collection of Cartoons 9"), a PAL 2003 Russian release. It also includes the films Barankin, Be a Man!,[1] Inchgirl,[2] The Pot of Porridge,[3] How the Cat Fought with Mice,[4] and Wings, Legs and Tails[5] (total running time: 142 minutes).

The film has also been released on DVD by the company Krupnyy Plan.[6]

See also

Notes
  1. Barankin, Be a Man!
  2. Inchgirl
  3. The Pot of Porridge
  4. How the Cat Fought with Mice
  5. Wings, Legs and Tails
  6. "Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе. Сборник мультфильмов". vobzor.com.


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