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Director
  
Fyodor Khitruk

Screenplay
  
Mikhail Volpin

Duration
  

Language
  
Russian

7.2/10
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Genre
  
Animation, Short

Music director
  
Andrey Babaev

Country
  
Soviet Union

The Story of a Crime movie poster

Cast
  
Zinovy Gerdt

Writer
  
Mikhail Volpin (screenplay)

Release date
  
1962 (1962)

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The Story of a Crime (Russian: История одного преступления, translit. Istoriya odnogo prestupleniya) is a 1962 Soviet animated film directed by Fyodor Khitruk and based on a screenplay by Michael Volpin. It was produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The score is by Andrey Babaev, with sound editing by George Martynuk.

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It was the first film by Khitruk, whose role in the history of Russian animation led him to be recognized as a People's Artist of the USSR and a Meritorious Artist, and to receive the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".

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Plot summary

Noises at night made by rude neighbors cause the very friendly and peaceful Vasily Mamin to commit a crime. The cartoon serves as an explanation as of why such a brutal crime is committed at the beginning. It is a flashback at how Mamin spent his last 24 hours before the crime.

Voice cast

  • Zinovy Gerdt as Narrator
  • Awards

  • 9th International Short Film Festival in Oberkhauzen (Federal Republic of Germany), 1963
  • Diploma and The Golden Gates Prize of the 7th International Cinema Festival in San Francisco, 1962
  • References

    The Story of a Crime Wikipedia
    The Story of a Crime IMDb The Story of a Crime themoviedb.org