Last year's snow was falling. 30 Cartoons

- That year has already arrived, went second new, and the snow falls last year)))
Says Stanislav Sadalsky. (Voiced peasant)
At the heart of the cartoon "last year's snow was falling" are the usual adventure man, went in search of a Christmas tree.
But lazy, dumb and a little bit greedy little man out of luck - the Christmas tree home, he will bring home only in the spring, but it will be too late.
Many phrases cartoon voiced by me, the people began to cruise.
I tell you the only three invented by yours truly
 - This is my razmerchik!
 - I know the magic word - "please & quot ;.
 - The body of such pleasant flexibility was formed!

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"Last year's snow was falling" - an animated film made in 1983 by the Soviet filmmaker Alexander Tatarsky scenario Sergei Ivanov. Made using clay animation techniques. The plot - a fun Christmas story about a peasant, went in search of a Christmas tree.
Cartoon distinguished by the fact that the aphoristic replica cartoon characters, full of absurdist humor, turned to folk sayings.
The main character - a man, foolish, cunning, lazy, greedy, and even to the same tongue-tied (does not utter "some letters and numbers"). It likes to drink beer constantly gets in a wacky situation. Fortunately, he has a wife - "strict and authoritative." The whole story begins with the fact that his wife sends man to bring out of the woods on New Year's tree. But the New Forest - a magical place, full of unexpected events and transformations. Entangled in miracles, repeatedly losing and again finding own identity, the man returns home with nothing.
The plot is divided into two related stories - about the dream man and the incredible transformation into a magic hut on chicken legs. The plot is based on the first tale, found in many nations of the world about a greedy man who is seeing a hare in the forest, dreaming how to be rich to catch the beast. As a result, he accidentally scare a rabbit shouting and remain with nothing.
Cartoon ends with the narrator about how a man walked behind the Christmas tree for the third time, and finally got it, but as it was in the spring, he had to be carried back to the tree.
"Last year's snow was falling" has not escaped the attention of censorship.
At the beginning of the Tatar are not allowed to begin work on the cartoon, forcing shoot cartoon about the pioneers of collecting scrap metal. Directed by unsuccessfully trying to push through with scandals his script. In the end, he went to the trick - he said he would make a film about Lenin, with two weeks to seek the right to remove the cartoon about Lenin, incidentally adding that the picture will be based on the works Zoshchenko. Under the pressure of such a peremptory officers surrendered and agreed to the original script, but would not affect the forbidden topic.
Despite the desperate resistance of the director and screenwriter, "last year's snow was falling" was sent "on completion". Cartoon had to re-install and sometimes overdubbed.
As mentioned by the composer Grigory Gladkov during a speech in the program "Around the laughter" cartoon had the original working title "Holy smoke, thick forest", but the main character in it was the janitor of "Plasticine Crow". Then the visual concept of the main character had to finalize, however, as the name.
Cartoon voice invited Rina Green, Leah Akhedzhakova [3]. Akhedzhakova even voiced a cartoon, but Tatarsky did not like. Then the film editor Lyudmila Koptev had nominated Stanislav Sadalsky, which later became friends Tatar. Interestingly, in the closing credits of his name is absent. Before delivery to the Chairman of the Radio and Television cartoon Sergei Lapin came information that Sadalsky was detained at the restaurant "Cosmos" with a foreign citizen. As punishment for associating with foreigners name removed from the credits of actor [.
Based on the cartoon of the same name, there are two computer games, which tells about new adventures of the man. Both games announced Sadalsky.
According Gladkov typical "quack" sound in some compositions of the cartoon was created by a musical instrument of class horns called kazoo
Explaining the composer, what should be the final musical theme, Tatar said, "By this tune we will bury!" And so it happened: the theme from the cartoon "last year's snow was falling" was played at the funeral director.
The phrase "Oh, these storytellers" - is the epigraph first novel Fyodor Dostoevsky "Poor people", which in turn quote from the story of Prince Odoevskii "living dead»

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