The Little Mermaid
Русалочка
Release: 1968-06-19
·Runtime: 28m
·★ 7.0
Animation
Fantasy
Family
Rusalochka opens in modern day Copenhagen, Denmark. Several tourists gather around the capital's famous mermaid statue, as a tour guide explains its significance. A fish in the water below the tourists scoffs at their foolishness, and then, proceeds to tell about the doomed love of the mermaid. Upon reaching her 15th birthday, the Little Mermaid is allowed to swim up to the surface above. As soon as she does, however, the Mermaid spots a young prince caught up in a dreadful storm. She admires the man's bravery and decides to save him, declaring that, "The beautiful and the brave should not perish." After the mermaid returns to the ocean, she decides that she wants to become human.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Soyuzmultfilm
Cast
Crew
Antonina Alyoshina
Animation
Natalya Abramova
Script Editor
Elvira Maslova
Animation
Aleksandr Galich
Writer
Vadim Dolgikh
Animation
Marina Rogova
Animation
Aleksandr Lokshin
Original Music Composer
Mikhail Druyan
Director of Photography
Vladimir Tarasov
Assistant Art Director
Hans Christian Andersen
Novel
Aleksandr Davydov
Animation
Daniil Mendelevich
Art Direction
Dmitriy Anpilov
Background Designer
Georgiy Martynyuk
Sound
Nikolay Fyodorov
Animation