Strekoza i muravei / The Grasshopper and the Ant (1913)

Wladyslaw Starewicz

Стрекоза и муравей / Heinäsirkka ja muurahainen / Gräshoppan och myran. RU 1913. PC: Akts. o-vo Hanzhonkov i K. D+SC+AN+AD: Władysław Starewicz - based on a poem by Ivan Krylov - based on an old traditional fairytale already known by Aesop. A 2006 KAVA colour print. Restored from a vintage colour print with original Finnish / Swedish intertitles. /16 fps/ 7 min.

1. film in the Russian film concert - Mauri Saarikoski (violin) and Marko Puro (piano). Cinema Orion, Helsinki (History of Russian cinema), 19 Sep 2013.

See my Strekoza i muravei remarks 2 Oct 2009.

Revisited: a still wonderful masterpiece of stop motion animation with a tragic ending. Viewing copy based on the fine vintage Finnish nitrate print. Inspired music by Mauri Saarikoski and Marko Puro.