The Cat Who Walked by Herself
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Director Ideya Garanina | 7.2/10 IMDb Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1988 (USSR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cat Who Walked by Herself (Russian: Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе; 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. Includes in itself almost all types animation technologies.
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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 the short story, but goes off on many digressions.
Two parents put their 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. The child grabs her tail, and 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 is starting with dinosaurs.
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!, Inchgirl, The Pot of Porridge, How the Cat Fought with Mice, and Wings, Legs and Tails (total running time: 142 minutes).
The film has also been released on DVD by the company Krupnyy Plan.
References
The Cat Who Walked by Herself WikipediaThe Cat Who Walked by Herself IMDb The Cat Who Walked by Herself themoviedb.org