Leonid Amalrik — Director (9)

Movie

A Sober Sparrow (1960)
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other title: Непьющий воробей / ‎A Sober Sparrow
Sparrow was invited to a banquet. He came and at first tried to drink only soda. The neighbor noticed this and was indignant. Tamada poured a glass for sparrow and made him drink, then poured more and more. Then the guests began to sing, dance, and all ended by beating dishes. Absolutely drunk sparrow was getting home staggering and with loud singing, than woke up all the neighbors. He smashed to bits someone's nestling and fell. Sparrow was summoned to the public court, where former guests accused him of all sins.

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About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations (1966)
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other title: Про бегемота, который боялся прививок / About the hippopotamus who was afraid of inoculations …
Fabulous animals bathed, rested and had fun on the summer beach of the southern town. Suddenly, the rest was interrupted by an urgent message on a hanging poster: "Everyone needs to vaccinate vaccinations from elephant to fly!". However, all the animals, having read the message, as if nothing had happened, began to rest, dance and sunbathe again. And only Behemoth, worried, began to ask everyone how scary and painful it was to vaccinate.

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Dyuymovochka (1964)
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other title: Дюймовочка / 拇指姑娘
一位独居的老妇人非常的想要一个女儿,她日夜许愿,终于感动了女巫。女巫给了老妇人一颗种子,叮嘱她一定要每日都给种子浇水,渐渐的,种子发芽了,开花了,小小的拇指姑娘就出生于娇嫩的花蕊之中。 虽然老妇人每天都非常细心的照顾着拇指姑娘,但是拇指姑娘还是不免感到有些孤独,她渴望遇到一个和她一样大小的伙伴。一天,来自秀珍王国的柯尼斯王子出现在了拇指姑娘的面前,一见钟情的两人双双坠入了情网之中。王子答应拇指姑娘第二天早晨来接她,哪知道这段对话被蟾蜍太太偷听到了,蟾蜍太太希望拇指姑娘能够嫁给自己的儿子,于是趁着拇指姑娘睡着的时候绑架了她。

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Black and White (1932)
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Ivan Ivanov-Vano / Leonid Amalrik actor: Konstantin Eggert
other title: 黑与白 / Блэк энд уайт …
The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.