Alice in Wonderland (1981 film)

Alice in Wonderland
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Based on	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Screenplay by	Yevhen Zahdanskyy
Directed by	Yefrem Pruzhanskyy
Starring	Marina Neyolova Vyacheslav Nevinny Tatyana Vasilyeva Aleksandr Shirvindt
Narrated by	Rostislav Plyatt
Music by	Luigi Boccherini Ottorino Respighi Andrzej Korzyński Yevgeny Ptichkin
Country of origin	Soviet Union
Original language	Russian
Production
Cinematography	Aleksandr Mukhin
Editor	Svetlana Kutsenko
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Kievnauchfilm
Original release
Release	1981 (1981) – 1981 (1981)

Alice in Wonderland (Russian: Алиса в Стране чудес, romanized: Alisa v Strane chudes) is a 1981 Soviet animated film based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was produced by Kievnauchfilm and directed by Yefrem Pruzhanskyy.^[1][2][3] It originally aired on Ukrainian television in three parts.^[4][5][6]

Plot

The cartoon is based on the fairy tale story by Lewis Carroll. One summer, a girl named Alice, chasing a bizarre White Rabbit with a watch in his pocket, fell into a rabbit hole and... found herself in Wonderland, a wonderland. Here, Alice will have to become smaller and bigger several times, meet the Blue Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, go to a "crazy tea party" with the Hatter and the March Hare, find out why gardeners dye roses, meet the Queen of Hearts on the croquet court, and finally take part in the trial of the Jack of Hearts, who stole the royal cutlets.

Voice cast

• Marina Neyolova as Alice
• Vyacheslav Nevinny as White Rabbit
• Tatyana Vasilyeva as Queen of Hearts
• Rina Zelyonaya as Duchess
• Aleksandr Burmistrov as Hatter
• Yevhen Paperny as Knave of Hearts
• Heorhiy Kyshko as March Hare
• Aleksandr Shirvindt as Cheshire Cat
• Malvina Shvidler as Caterpillar
• Lyudmila Ignatenko as The Dormouse
• Rostislav Plyatt as Narrator

References

1. MacFadyen, David (20 May 2005). Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film since World War II. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 9780773572720 – via Google Books.
2. "Journal of Russian Studies". Assoc. of Teachers of Russian. 11 July 1981 – via Google Books.
3. Venter, Mark. "Comparing Disney's Alice in Wonderland and Kievnauchfilm's Alisa in the Land of Miracles in Relation to their Context of Creation by Mark Venter" – via www.academia.edu. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. "Алиса в стране чудес - психоделический Wonderland". 27 March 2007. Archived from the original on 27 March 2007.
5. "Элис, Соня, Аня: как "Алиса в Стране чудес" становилась русской книгой". 4 July 2020.
6. "Alice in Wonderland (1981)" – via letterboxd.com.

External links

• Alice in Wonderland at IMDb
• Alice in Wonderland at Rotten Tomatoes
• Video on YouTube