This animation chill my blood! what a beautiful way to tell a strory, and the music, everything is so wonderful, it has become my favorite animation from now on! really want to thank you for this upload!
A beautiful cartoon. I'm a fan of animation from all over the world, and I can honestly say that this is one of my favorite short cartoons of all time (though I might be a little biased, being a cat lover, hahaha!).
Just a curiosity: the music which starts around 1:50 (and recurs throughout the short)... does it have a name? Or is it an original piece for the cartoon?
@surkhalam i was making a joke, marxism is a beautiful idea, the idea of equality, but it is, and will forever be, a failed ideology. Capitalism works, well, you can depend on greediness in people. It sucks, but what can you do.
@tictactoechicken123 I'm not certain that you understand either Marxism or Capitalism.
Remember that Marxism requires Capitalism to precede it and that NEITHER is a political philosophy, but economic.
It is NOT 'greed' upon which you can depend, but self-interest (and as shown by the past couple decades of the US, even that can be distorted to the point that people will side against their best interests.)
There is no such thing as an individual, separate from the world. Interdependence.
Great film, has all the characteristics of all truly great soviet 'multchiki' =animated films.
- A poetic, dreamy mood.
- A subtle moral tale about inclusive, tolerant values
- A markedly NON-POLITICAL character It's time we stopped attempting to politicise absolutely everything 'soviet' ("is the tree the state?" - lol) and start acknowledging the talent and creativity of these great artists in their own right, appreciate the talent empowered BY their (soviet) circumstances, not DESPITE them.
it's wonderful. every soviet cartoon is made to teach children morals. what moral can you see in american cartoons? american animation is without soul, it's made just for money.
@DeejayBeStabdziu Well, it's true that most popular American animation, including from the "Golden Age", was made for strictly commercial purposes, often under tight deadlines. If you look in slightly different places, though, I think you can find some very good American animation with plenty of soul. My favourites from recent years are Nina Paley's very funny "Sita Sings the Blues", and the films of Paul and Sandra Fierlinger ("My Dog Tulip", "A Room Nearby", "Still Life with Animated Dogs").
@tictactoechicken123 Which ones do you mean? American animation (at least the well-known variety) has always existed in the environment of capitalism, so it's been rather commercial, with the emphasis on "sweet" rather than "nourishing".
I don't think it is true at all. In America there is a wider array and selection of cartoons for people to watch and for artists to express themselves. If you looked at cartoons from early 40s to 90s in USSR and USA then you would have seen that topic and content diversity is bigger in USA cartoons while USSR cartoons were always very narrow and common messages of kindness and goodness but thats it. They were very high quality until mid 80s though.
@StopFear I'm surprised to hear you say this. From what I have seen, the variety was quite wide, especially in the 1980s (but also ever since the 1960s). There were antiwar films like the 1972 "Ave Maria", or 1977 "Firing Range" by Anatoliy Petrov, satire like "Cowboys in the City", "Kozyavin", MANY historical films (Ratibor's Childhood, Swans of Nepryavda), ethnic studies (Legends of the Peruvian Indians), sci-fi... I do think that some of the most amazing ones were done in the late 1980s.
@StopFear Mikhail Titov's "Terrible Vengeance", Barinova's "When the Sand Will Rise", Valentin Karravayev's "Mumu", Valentin Karayev's "The Lodgers of an Old House", Petrov's "The Cow"... I can't imagine any of them getting funded in the US system. In which ways were topic and content diversity wider in the US?
@StopFear Maybe those were the messages relevant to Russian society in those days. Think outside the box.
Besides, what's wrong with kindness? Pranks and consumption come and go, kindness lasts forever. Please tell me what important things the American artists were allowed to express and the Soviet people missed.
@DeejayBeStabdziu = America is a young country, we dont have stories like this. Russia can have their cartoons. Ill keep the Democracy here in America (where I can watch Russian cartoons freely).
@KingOfAshton Russia is younger than the United States, and in fact the USSR, which is the country that essentially became Russia was also founded after the United States. Regardless, a nation's youth has nothing to do with its posession of fictional stories.
now I get it! at first the tree didn't need company but the cat did and at the end the tree needed company but the cat didn't its like there emotions changed sides.
Wow, that's beautiful.. And why are there no these wonderful cartoons on TV?... Instead we have lots of shit on...(( Russian childrean don't know anything about our cartoons, but watch Winx and other crap like that... This is sad..
I love this story, there is a lesson for each of us to learn....don't be afraid to depend on others ever so once in a while. I am a loner and this story has touched me deeply.
there's a few really good 1980s Russian cartoon shorts. i like the one based off "There Will Be Soft Rains" by ray Bradbury even if it isn't accurate.
i've no idea, but this cartoon made me cry like a baby for no particular reason, guess it's so damn beautiful. i gotta agree with cornflakes002, t'is the side of russia that noone sees...
yea and you cant possibly be american haha. my favourite is a guy with moustache and a beret, wearing a stripped black and white t-shirt, holding a bottle of wine in one hand and a loaf of bread in another.
Jeeze i've seen some crap on benttube but this not only takes the biscuit but runs away with it and then returns 12 years later and eats it in front of you... I do think people would be better of spending their time baking cakes or plucking hedgehogs, on second thoughts baking cakes is cruel, i mean who would bring a poor innocent cake in to this horrible people infested goat loving universe unless they are a perverted horse molester...
Maybe it's me being overly positive but I don't see the ending like a lot of the other viewers. Sure, maybe the cat just walks away, but maybe he just acts like that to make the tree react and understand that they need each other now. The cat's behaviour in the last scene (the way he smiles and slowly walks away, like he is teasing the tree) is easier to understand like this.
But maybe it's me. That's what is beautiful, it's completely open for interpretation.
I agree with diamant4444 (although, yes, the cat is a she ^_~). It does seem like she is walking away in a teasing manner as if to get a reaction out of the tree. I'm willing to say she comes back to stay with the tree. During the rest of the cartoon, she seems to have grown too fond of it to just walk away.
@diamant4444 I saw it the same way, but i think thats because i wanted that to happen. But yeah, the cats movements while he walks away and what he says seems like she wanted to tease. That and the cat really relied on the tree. that cat isnt ready to be alone at all x3
I don't think it has pro-Soviet undertones, I think it deals with concepts that would pervade any piece of work that emerged from a society that values togetherness. Just as many Western movies involve learning independence, this Eastern movie involves learning dependence. It makes all the sense in the world that this would come out of a certain culture's interpretation of the story. And personally, I think it's a brilliant and touching interpretation.
What a good way of putting it. And it's true, this turns one of the traditional Western movie structures on its head. In a lot of Western movies, the main character learns assertiveness and independence by the end of the film. Here, the tree starts out that way.
that...was...great!!Soviet cartoons are the best!!now you realise as a kid from 12years old the american cartoons i watch are bullshit!!They should make these cartoons again
While you can see the pro-Soviet overtones---it does make self-sufficiency (the U.S.) look bad---it's still a beautiful story. It made me want to die, but it's still beautiful.
I would still say that any perceived "pro-Soviet overtones" are just your imagination. First, I didn't see how it made self-sufficiency look bad. Self-sufficiency is presented as a strong tree that never flowers, with the opposite being a tree that has flowered, but is gnarled and bent. And in any case, it's the USSR that was self-sufficient, not the US (consider how much the US economy relied and relies on foreign trade, while this was always a very small part of the Soviet economy).
Yeah, maybe I was expecting some sort of message like that. By self-suffiency, I mean the American tendency to value individuality as opposed to the sharing philosophy of Communism (it's right there in the name). I don't mean it's a bad film, if anything, it's one of the best animated films I've ever seen, but I sensed that message played subtly there.
Hmm. Well, if you expect something to be there, you'll probably find it, particularly in something subjective like a work of art. All concepts are related to each other, by degrees of separation. But I would say that the particular connection that you're making is very distant. I think that a much closer and more obvious connection is that the film is about the price of opening up your soul to others, as told by an artist who was himself "the tree".
It's just my interpretation. It's not meant to be negative. I often see American movies as pushing traditional ideals as well. In the end, it's only part of how I see the film.
I don't think you understand the meaning of this... it is not Soviet.... it is universal, and very very Russian too.... I cried the moment i heard the narrator... until the end... my husband, who i miss tremendously would talk to me like that sometime and this just brought him home to me... but also the fact that when you loose someone you love very much, there are many poignant moments in life like this. The story could be told in Iran, Japan, Lagos, Nigeria, Mexico, Bolivia, & also the USA
В первом классе на продленке нас водили смотреть мультики. Всегда одни и те же 4 мультфильма. Один из них был этот. Я посмотрела его много раз - отказаться было нельзя, и хотя фильм хороший, но это какая-то изощренная жестокость.
Oops, I just realized (two years too late) that I made a translation mistake at 2:10... well, I added a few annotations to fix it. Unfortunately, Youtube doesn't allow updating video files.
@cornflakes002 no. all of art lover knows the depth and beauty of russian arts. even in my country - south korea, where had been filled with extraordinary anti-communism propagnda in past decases, russian art movie, russian art animation, russian literliture and russian painting have acquired so many lovers. and still now.^^
не страдайте! кошка быстро соскучиется по дереву. с другой стороны, кому нужна деревянная любовь? ключ в персонажах... холоднокровие кошки... и тупасть пня, в месте не сживаються. сори за ошибки, я тупой американец.
Yes but remember CGi is not bad, it's just being felt up by every company and being used cheaply, so she isn't looking too good now, the same happened to animation dude/ette!
There are no Russian animation professionals, as far as I can tell, who believe that animation is "only for kids". Although at the same time, many of them take seriously its role in children's upbringing. But there's a big disconnect between the world of the professionals and the world of ordinary people, so I'm not so sure about the overall perception in society.
Wonderful, but yeah at least one of my friend refuses to watch anything animated, as well as read, if it's not live-action, there's an odd double standard fro CGi though...
He probably associates 2D animation by the cheesy family films that he watched in his youth.
Maybe he needs a slow acclimatization. Start him off by showing him Svankmajer's "Lunch", which might look like "live action" to him. Then Svankmajer's "Darkness/Light/Darkness", which already looks like animation.
Once he's ready for some 2D surreal horror, search Youtube for "Hypn-eroto-machia". Or if he doesn't mind something a bit more slow-paced: Youtube url v=WfI69DC_jaw (it's a masterpiece).
yeah I've tried but SHE doesn't budge, she even has a friend who thinks literally animation (read as cartoons to her friend) is only for very young children and that it helps them, even though she mentioned nothing of content... and I tried to convince and some even say I'm childish for even suggesting it, it's infuriating... and then again my friend does also believe that transformers was an excellent movie with few flaws.... well I'll try those suggestion on her!
Yes. Not only is he your great Ukrainian master, but he has personally taught nearly all of today's Ukrainian animators. Last I heard, he was still working for a pittance at your national film studio. But tell me this: he has continued making films into the 1990s and 2000s too. They have won top prizes in the FEW film festivals that they've been entered in. Why can I not find ANY of those films anywhere, either for sale or online? It seems that the Ukraine of today has forgotten him...
A beautiful story. A soviet folktale, perhaps, about how the cat came to be so aloof? That is how I took it. Either way, very beautiful, and I love the animation style from those areas. =3
Why are you dissing disney's films? A lot of disney films are amazing (though their old ones are far superior to their new ones). Their old films were painted by HAND, the orchestra was directed specifically for the films, and it took a lot of hard work to make those films what they are. Have you ever watched the fox and the hound? It's a beautiful film. I don't see why you can't appreciate both. Instead you made a comment that just insults people who like disney and this.
Thank you for the subtitles! Would you happen to know the animator's information? I am aware of the studio but I am unable to find any of the artist's info.
Click on the link in the description, click on the British flag, and you can see information in English. As far as I know, Yevgeniy Sivokon is still working, still making films in Ukraine, albeit for very little money. His latest films (1990s onward) are unfortunately impossible to find, because nobody cares about distributing them.
A beautiful story, a wonderful music... I am interested in one thing: Came the cat back to tree? It´s very sad..
soyuzize 7 months ago
Soviet animation like small act from theatre
TheTimurbest 7 months ago
I can't stop crying over here, that was so sweet and heart wrenching. <3
SpockLover27 7 months ago
wonderful.
eiroight 7 months ago
was Ny Pogodi! made in soviet era? because i loved that cartoon!
SovietUnion100 7 months ago
This is wonderful.
jarannalli 7 months ago
Perfect to my mode, made me cry.
HordieHuntress 8 months ago
REGINA!
Evangeline30575 8 months ago 12
@Agent234561 O... k...
monckey44 8 months ago
It's sad and happy at the same time.
monckey44 8 months ago
it's funny that foreigners think every detail in soviet union was propaganda and because of propaganda.
probably some would think this is propaganda too
alexgrinkov 8 months ago 8
This is beautiful! :') I cried at the end.
ValdenWoodStudios 8 months ago 3
This animation chill my blood! what a beautiful way to tell a strory, and the music, everything is so wonderful, it has become my favorite animation from now on! really want to thank you for this upload!
atento611 9 months ago
Wise Russians!! :D
liketheuniverse11 10 months ago
A very beautiful story.
Sprinkets 10 months ago
жалко дерево :(
volchonok07 11 months ago
Americans cartoons made just for monye,and The Soviet Cartoon for soul!!!
KjorkAnna 11 months ago 2
In my opinion The Soviet Cartoons are the best in the world!!!
KjorkAnna 11 months ago
A beautiful cartoon. I'm a fan of animation from all over the world, and I can honestly say that this is one of my favorite short cartoons of all time (though I might be a little biased, being a cat lover, hahaha!).
Just a curiosity: the music which starts around 1:50 (and recurs throughout the short)... does it have a name? Or is it an original piece for the cartoon?
16Nire61 11 months ago 3
@16Nire61 Probably all of the music in this cartoon is original. The composer's name is listed in the credits...
Niffiwan 11 months ago
@surkhalam i was making a joke, marxism is a beautiful idea, the idea of equality, but it is, and will forever be, a failed ideology. Capitalism works, well, you can depend on greediness in people. It sucks, but what can you do.
tictactoechicken123 1 year ago
@tictactoechicken123 I'm not certain that you understand either Marxism or Capitalism.
Remember that Marxism requires Capitalism to precede it and that NEITHER is a political philosophy, but economic.
It is NOT 'greed' upon which you can depend, but self-interest (and as shown by the past couple decades of the US, even that can be distorted to the point that people will side against their best interests.)
There is no such thing as an individual, separate from the world. Interdependence.
SuperWiz666 1 year ago
4:45
Вырезать 2 к.
Занятная находка.
Мультфильм сам по себе отличный. Спасибо.
mitona1988 1 year ago 2
Great film, has all the characteristics of all truly great soviet 'multchiki' =animated films.
- A poetic, dreamy mood.
- A subtle moral tale about inclusive, tolerant values
- A markedly NON-POLITICAL character It's time we stopped attempting to politicise absolutely everything 'soviet' ("is the tree the state?" - lol) and start acknowledging the talent and creativity of these great artists in their own right, appreciate the talent empowered BY their (soviet) circumstances, not DESPITE them.
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Really pretty music too :)
7Flume 1 year ago
the side of russia no one WANTS to see
Jtiger987 1 year ago 4
almost cried
Jtiger987 1 year ago 4
it's wonderful. every soviet cartoon is made to teach children morals. what moral can you see in american cartoons? american animation is without soul, it's made just for money.
DeejayBeStabdziu 1 year ago 46
@DeejayBeStabdziu Well, it's true that most popular American animation, including from the "Golden Age", was made for strictly commercial purposes, often under tight deadlines. If you look in slightly different places, though, I think you can find some very good American animation with plenty of soul. My favourites from recent years are Nina Paley's very funny "Sita Sings the Blues", and the films of Paul and Sandra Fierlinger ("My Dog Tulip", "A Room Nearby", "Still Life with Animated Dogs").
Niffiwan 1 year ago 2
@DeejayBeStabdziu
-actually, that isnt true with a lot of the older ones.
tictactoechicken123 1 year ago
@tictactoechicken123 Which ones do you mean? American animation (at least the well-known variety) has always existed in the environment of capitalism, so it's been rather commercial, with the emphasis on "sweet" rather than "nourishing".
Niffiwan 1 year ago
@Niffiwan
I don't think it is true at all. In America there is a wider array and selection of cartoons for people to watch and for artists to express themselves. If you looked at cartoons from early 40s to 90s in USSR and USA then you would have seen that topic and content diversity is bigger in USA cartoons while USSR cartoons were always very narrow and common messages of kindness and goodness but thats it. They were very high quality until mid 80s though.
StopFear 11 months ago
@StopFear I'm surprised to hear you say this. From what I have seen, the variety was quite wide, especially in the 1980s (but also ever since the 1960s). There were antiwar films like the 1972 "Ave Maria", or 1977 "Firing Range" by Anatoliy Petrov, satire like "Cowboys in the City", "Kozyavin", MANY historical films (Ratibor's Childhood, Swans of Nepryavda), ethnic studies (Legends of the Peruvian Indians), sci-fi... I do think that some of the most amazing ones were done in the late 1980s.
Niffiwan 11 months ago
@StopFear Mikhail Titov's "Terrible Vengeance", Barinova's "When the Sand Will Rise", Valentin Karravayev's "Mumu", Valentin Karayev's "The Lodgers of an Old House", Petrov's "The Cow"... I can't imagine any of them getting funded in the US system. In which ways were topic and content diversity wider in the US?
Niffiwan 11 months ago
@StopFear Maybe those were the messages relevant to Russian society in those days. Think outside the box.
Besides, what's wrong with kindness? Pranks and consumption come and go, kindness lasts forever. Please tell me what important things the American artists were allowed to express and the Soviet people missed.
HelenaXVI 11 months ago
@tictactoechicken123
bernstein bears, winnie the pooh?
tictactoechicken123 1 year ago
@DeejayBeStabdziu
um, I watched nearly every soviet cartoon, being from former USSR, and I think this cartoon fails to show any moral
StopFear 11 months ago
@DeejayBeStabdziu = America is a young country, we dont have stories like this. Russia can have their cartoons. Ill keep the Democracy here in America (where I can watch Russian cartoons freely).
KingOfAshton 9 months ago
@KingOfAshton Russia is younger than the United States, and in fact the USSR, which is the country that essentially became Russia was also founded after the United States. Regardless, a nation's youth has nothing to do with its posession of fictional stories.
Also, Russia has democracy.
MattColor 8 months ago
@DeejayBeStabdziu Not to mention it looks fucking awful compared to things like anime.
KazeLynn 9 months ago
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@KazeLynn fucking 10 year old idiot.
WOWgGTA4LOVER 8 months ago
@KazeLynn
No it doesn´t, if a person´s not frivolous... This cartoon is not amazing in graphics (Geez it´s from 1983...), but in concept and point...
HordieHuntress 8 months ago
@HordieHuntress I meant American cartoons, I actually really like this cartoon. I hate American cartoons, they're so awful, especially today.
KazeLynn 8 months ago
In Soviet Russia, tree likes you.
LinkEX 1 year ago 10
the tree is the state
isnt it?
perokcojones 1 year ago
@perokcojones Not every single film made in the Soviet Union is a metaphor about the state... really now...
Niffiwan 1 year ago 19
@Niffiwan that was only a question
golbras 1 year ago
@perokcojones
LOOOL. The tree(state) is an unbearable hardass that only becomes beautiful when it learns to care for more than itself.
tictactoechicken123 1 year ago
now I get it! at first the tree didn't need company but the cat did and at the end the tree needed company but the cat didn't its like there emotions changed sides.
faincom 1 year ago
don't hide under a tree during a thunderstorm
StarAll4life 1 year ago
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwww :'(
DackIsBack 1 year ago
Wow, that's beautiful.. And why are there no these wonderful cartoons on TV?... Instead we have lots of shit on...(( Russian childrean don't know anything about our cartoons, but watch Winx and other crap like that... This is sad..
33MelloLover33 1 year ago
I love this story, there is a lesson for each of us to learn....don't be afraid to depend on others ever so once in a while. I am a loner and this story has touched me deeply.
Silverfern7771 1 year ago
So many different opinions on ending and all the meaning...
Well, I think its somewhat of zen or buddhist classical motif.
This is my interpretation and it came very quickly while watching for the first time
Abrofer 1 year ago
beautiful story! very interesting ending too, although sad. tells a lot about us humans and how people change through others!
wortundfreiheit 1 year ago
I like to think the cat went back.
Reatrea 1 year ago 12
Is it better to have loved and lost, or never have loved at all?
Elwingish 1 year ago 5
oh wow ... what a surprising and unusual ending. i loved it.
karmacop911 1 year ago
Very Beautiful story...
The tree have a sad loving memories with the cat ,he shall now share it with others.
hotmamiime 1 year ago
Poor tree; it didn't want the cat to go. :(
R0gyo 1 year ago
aww this is a truly nice and heart warming story :)
genbaboy7012 1 year ago
she shouldn't have hide under the tree when it s raining hahaha
TheLeizard 1 year ago
that cat must be a angel who was send to the tree to teach affenction and to break the tree's solitude. how beautiful
icylakepaxphile 1 year ago 2
congratulatiosn for the uploaded video, is very emmotive, to my wife and me is a pretty video animation, so far of the "american" animation.
saludos desde México.
actionundcomedy 1 year ago
@actionundcomedy tienes toda la razón en tu comentario
felicidades por el bicentenario! aqui lo vi en Costa Rica
Dragonalatina30 1 year ago
there's a few really good 1980s Russian cartoon shorts. i like the one based off "There Will Be Soft Rains" by ray Bradbury even if it isn't accurate.
mashersmasher 1 year ago
I wonder if the makers of the movie "About a Boy" were inspired by this cartoon.
RussianBarbarian 1 year ago
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RussianBarbarian 1 year ago
NICE. great cartoon, as always Russia)))
AusLander18 1 year ago
Why are all the animations so sad??
KarakalLynx 1 year ago
Very sweet little tale, touching.
Princeigor 1 year ago
i've no idea, but this cartoon made me cry like a baby for no particular reason, guess it's so damn beautiful. i gotta agree with cornflakes002, t'is the side of russia that noone sees...
AnemoneAlaundorl 1 year ago 7
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Idomeina 1 year ago
No one is an island.
kingsman565 1 year ago
That was beautiful! Thank you for posting.
OneSummerSky 1 year ago
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nicck 1 year ago
An emotional Russian cartoon, I be damned.
ne0eagle 1 year ago 6
@ne0eagle
yea, cuz russians are cruel and have no feelings..
lol
bltnxkrw 1 year ago
hahah yeah i know just like americans are all fat.
KIBAfang90 1 year ago
yea and you cant possibly be american haha. my favourite is a guy with moustache and a beret, wearing a stripped black and white t-shirt, holding a bottle of wine in one hand and a loaf of bread in another.
bltnxkrw 1 year ago
hahah guess agian. And very funny! Im adding you!
KIBAfang90 1 year ago
@bltnxkrw
Go and say it to my face! I'll show you the cruelty with all my wide russian soul
33MelloLover33 1 year ago
@33MelloLover33 i was being sarcastic.. unless you are joking as well
bltnxkrw 1 year ago
@bltnxkrw
Good for you XDDDD
It was a joke partly, but I'm ready anytime ;))))))))
33MelloLover33 1 year ago
@ne0eagle If that surprised you, I'm very glad that you stumbled across this. You might also like "The Dog Door" by Animos Studio.
Niffiwan 1 year ago 7
@Niffiwan I love The Dog Door :D Its what got me into Russian Animation. IN fact i love Russian animation more then Japanese
oOoDancingAngeloOo 1 year ago
Very moving thank you for uploading this.
14DMN 1 year ago
Sad. :`(
castellanofarsante 1 year ago 8
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Jeeze i've seen some crap on benttube but this not only takes the biscuit but runs away with it and then returns 12 years later and eats it in front of you... I do think people would be better of spending their time baking cakes or plucking hedgehogs, on second thoughts baking cakes is cruel, i mean who would bring a poor innocent cake in to this horrible people infested goat loving universe unless they are a perverted horse molester...
fingerspies 1 year ago
@fingerspies Dude, you're 35 years old. Go get a job and stop wasting your time leaving worthless comments on youtube.
WontYouPickMe 1 year ago
I really enjoyed this. The music is fantastic, filled with emotion.
WontYouPickMe 1 year ago
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fingerspies 1 year ago
beautiful animation...beautiful drawings :)
enibenirabah 1 year ago
Whoops, my mistake guys, in french the word "cat" is masculine and I wrote too quickly out of my head. : )
diamant4444 1 year ago
Wonderful. Thanks Niffiwan :)
Maybe it's me being overly positive but I don't see the ending like a lot of the other viewers. Sure, maybe the cat just walks away, but maybe he just acts like that to make the tree react and understand that they need each other now. The cat's behaviour in the last scene (the way he smiles and slowly walks away, like he is teasing the tree) is easier to understand like this.
But maybe it's me. That's what is beautiful, it's completely open for interpretation.
diamant4444 1 year ago 21
Maybe...
But the cat is a "she"... (maybe this isn't clear in the translation?)
Niffiwan 1 year ago
@Niffiwan The cat is sort of a "she" by default, just because "koshka" is already feminine... But technically you're right :P
The way I see it, it doesn't really matter though.
petitequinte 1 year ago 3
@petitequinte Yes, I know that the cat is feminine. Did you mean to direct your comment at diamant4444?
Niffiwan 1 year ago
@Niffiwan Yeah, I guess so. Oops.
petitequinte 1 year ago
I agree with diamant4444 (although, yes, the cat is a she ^_~). It does seem like she is walking away in a teasing manner as if to get a reaction out of the tree. I'm willing to say she comes back to stay with the tree. During the rest of the cartoon, she seems to have grown too fond of it to just walk away.
spastiksparky 1 year ago
@diamant4444 I saw it the same way, but i think thats because i wanted that to happen. But yeah, the cats movements while he walks away and what he says seems like she wanted to tease. That and the cat really relied on the tree. that cat isnt ready to be alone at all x3
monique2489 1 year ago
@diamant4444 I thumb you down for some spoiling. Yet, you seem right about the end.
fdslk1 8 months ago
Спасибо! Никогда не видела этого мультфильма. Очень понравился. И не особо типичный для мультфильмов открытый конец, и как кошка нарисована.
qlilud 2 years ago 4
A film which ends with you pitying a tree must be good.
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Loof42 2 years ago
Thank you for this beautiful heartbreaking piece of art!
heinzschweins 2 years ago 9
Некоторые делают. Рекомендую посмотреть мультфильм "Собачья дверца" ("The Dog Door"), Студия "Анимос", 2007.
Niffiwan 2 years ago
I don't think it has pro-Soviet undertones, I think it deals with concepts that would pervade any piece of work that emerged from a society that values togetherness. Just as many Western movies involve learning independence, this Eastern movie involves learning dependence. It makes all the sense in the world that this would come out of a certain culture's interpretation of the story. And personally, I think it's a brilliant and touching interpretation.
tauceti1234 2 years ago 12
What a good way of putting it. And it's true, this turns one of the traditional Western movie structures on its head. In a lot of Western movies, the main character learns assertiveness and independence by the end of the film. Here, the tree starts out that way.
Niffiwan 2 years ago 4
that...was...great!!Soviet cartoons are the best!!now you realise as a kid from 12years old the american cartoons i watch are bullshit!!They should make these cartoons again
iownage4youi 2 years ago 7
what a beautiful story
loved it
nc1230 2 years ago 2
Great Niffiwan.
mebloke69 2 years ago 2
Superb! Very poignant!
FrankMento 2 years ago 2
While you can see the pro-Soviet overtones---it does make self-sufficiency (the U.S.) look bad---it's still a beautiful story. It made me want to die, but it's still beautiful.
wasjohnny 2 years ago
I would still say that any perceived "pro-Soviet overtones" are just your imagination. First, I didn't see how it made self-sufficiency look bad. Self-sufficiency is presented as a strong tree that never flowers, with the opposite being a tree that has flowered, but is gnarled and bent. And in any case, it's the USSR that was self-sufficient, not the US (consider how much the US economy relied and relies on foreign trade, while this was always a very small part of the Soviet economy).
Niffiwan 2 years ago
Yeah, maybe I was expecting some sort of message like that. By self-suffiency, I mean the American tendency to value individuality as opposed to the sharing philosophy of Communism (it's right there in the name). I don't mean it's a bad film, if anything, it's one of the best animated films I've ever seen, but I sensed that message played subtly there.
wasjohnny 2 years ago
Hmm. Well, if you expect something to be there, you'll probably find it, particularly in something subjective like a work of art. All concepts are related to each other, by degrees of separation. But I would say that the particular connection that you're making is very distant. I think that a much closer and more obvious connection is that the film is about the price of opening up your soul to others, as told by an artist who was himself "the tree".
Niffiwan 2 years ago
It's just my interpretation. It's not meant to be negative. I often see American movies as pushing traditional ideals as well. In the end, it's only part of how I see the film.
wasjohnny 2 years ago
i love you niffiwan. you're deep.
yaba3050 2 years ago
I don't think you understand the meaning of this... it is not Soviet.... it is universal, and very very Russian too.... I cried the moment i heard the narrator... until the end... my husband, who i miss tremendously would talk to me like that sometime and this just brought him home to me... but also the fact that when you loose someone you love very much, there are many poignant moments in life like this. The story could be told in Iran, Japan, Lagos, Nigeria, Mexico, Bolivia, & also the USA
lafotografia 2 years ago 5
Великолепие!
flamivv 2 years ago 2
В первом классе на продленке нас водили смотреть мультики. Всегда одни и те же 4 мультфильма. Один из них был этот. Я посмотрела его много раз - отказаться было нельзя, и хотя фильм хороший, но это какая-то изощренная жестокость.
asiafreu 2 years ago
That was nice
TheClassicalLiberal 2 years ago
Wow. Thank you. I really needed to see this.
beardedartisan 2 years ago 2
i've been watching this over 10 times
the music, the story ,everything about it is amazing
absolutely a Fav+
ElectricEng2011 2 years ago 6
Such a beautiful story. Really amazing, thank you for uploading it here!
tinyHedgehog 2 years ago 5
Wonderful wonderful music!
mahram 2 years ago 9
Oh boy. I want to cry but I'm at work.
antlerbaby 2 years ago 6
Oops, I just realized (two years too late) that I made a translation mistake at 2:10... well, I added a few annotations to fix it. Unfortunately, Youtube doesn't allow updating video files.
Niffiwan 2 years ago
The side of russia that no one sees
cornflakes002 2 years ago 44
@cornflakes002 no. all of art lover knows the depth and beauty of russian arts. even in my country - south korea, where had been filled with extraordinary anti-communism propagnda in past decases, russian art movie, russian art animation, russian literliture and russian painting have acquired so many lovers. and still now.^^
icylakepaxphile 1 year ago 8
не страдайте! кошка быстро соскучиется по дереву. с другой стороны, кому нужна деревянная любовь? ключ в персонажах... холоднокровие кошки... и тупасть пня, в месте не сживаються. сори за ошибки, я тупой американец.
spartaky1 2 years ago
English/Английский:
Holy shit, I think I teared up a little. Which didn't happen for quite a long time now. THIS IS AMAZING.
Russian/Русский:
Бля, по-моему я плакал на этом, чего со мной давно не случалось. Это потрясающий мульт.
Muzozavr 2 years ago 2
I just watched this for the first time and cried like a baby.
MissBillieDove 2 years ago 5
What an egoistic cat. It didnt learn anything. Just used the protection and walked away. Unthankful creature.
Alionka83 2 years ago 3
the cat was actually most thankful in realizing it's own sense of security (gee how profound is that!)
remeseoane 2 years ago 2
It's very interesting how Soviet animation like this often highlighted the cruelties of life. Very profound.
EndlessChris 2 years ago 10
I love that cat
fenouil 2 years ago
Beautiful animation, far much better than the CG cartoons these days. the music is gorgeous too, thanks for sharing!
everybody needs somebody!
robicool 2 years ago 3
Yes but remember CGi is not bad, it's just being felt up by every company and being used cheaply, so she isn't looking too good now, the same happened to animation dude/ette!
RoyalKnightVII 2 years ago
Cool but do the current Russian believe that animation is only for kids or do they also believe that it is just a medium not a genre?
because that's still the main line of thinking the U.S. has and most western countries have and the Middle East (Parts of it I think)
RoyalKnightVII 2 years ago
There are no Russian animation professionals, as far as I can tell, who believe that animation is "only for kids". Although at the same time, many of them take seriously its role in children's upbringing. But there's a big disconnect between the world of the professionals and the world of ordinary people, so I'm not so sure about the overall perception in society.
Niffiwan 2 years ago
Wonderful, but yeah at least one of my friend refuses to watch anything animated, as well as read, if it's not live-action, there's an odd double standard fro CGi though...
RoyalKnightVII 2 years ago
He probably associates 2D animation by the cheesy family films that he watched in his youth.
Maybe he needs a slow acclimatization. Start him off by showing him Svankmajer's "Lunch", which might look like "live action" to him. Then Svankmajer's "Darkness/Light/Darkness", which already looks like animation.
Once he's ready for some 2D surreal horror, search Youtube for "Hypn-eroto-machia". Or if he doesn't mind something a bit more slow-paced: Youtube url v=WfI69DC_jaw (it's a masterpiece).
Niffiwan 2 years ago
yeah I've tried but SHE doesn't budge, she even has a friend who thinks literally animation (read as cartoons to her friend) is only for very young children and that it helps them, even though she mentioned nothing of content... and I tried to convince and some even say I'm childish for even suggesting it, it's infuriating... and then again my friend does also believe that transformers was an excellent movie with few flaws.... well I'll try those suggestion on her!
RoyalKnightVII 2 years ago
music is AMAZING and full of emotion. this is SO INSPIRING.
today's animation must learn about this animation.
vlasvlasvlas 2 years ago
This is wonderful. Sad, too, but wonderful.
namtap 2 years ago
Ah, a real art piece. Thank you for posting.
MartenFerret 2 years ago
Ugh. You know a cartoon is good when it has you going "NO, CAT, GO BACK AND GET WITH THAT TREE."
Beautiful and inspiring.
Kamikazebutterfly 2 years ago 14
I think is important to mentioned, that this cartoon was a Ukrainian school of animation. Yes, Soviet Ukraine, but Ukraine in any way.
banderaua 2 years ago
Yes. Not only is he your great Ukrainian master, but he has personally taught nearly all of today's Ukrainian animators. Last I heard, he was still working for a pittance at your national film studio. But tell me this: he has continued making films into the 1990s and 2000s too. They have won top prizes in the FEW film festivals that they've been entered in. Why can I not find ANY of those films anywhere, either for sale or online? It seems that the Ukraine of today has forgotten him...
Niffiwan 2 years ago
(sorry, I was talking about Yevgeniy Sivokon, director of this film)
Niffiwan 2 years ago
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The moral of the story is that trees have a cat fetish, and cats are cockblockers.
supruzr 2 years ago
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lol
MachtzuSC 2 years ago
This is simply inspiring.. the story is beautiful.
HaleyMedley 2 years ago 4
A beautiful story. A soviet folktale, perhaps, about how the cat came to be so aloof? That is how I took it. Either way, very beautiful, and I love the animation style from those areas. =3
Slayers4TheFuture 2 years ago 2
These russian films are so great :) I'm so glad that youtube exists so I can see them
oceangust 2 years ago 14
This is such a beautiful animation
Rofferd7 2 years ago 3
This Is The Most Sad Thing I Ever Seen :'( but also the most beautifull...
its 10,000 times better than disney shit, this one is art and really beautifull cartoon
TheKillingJoker6 2 years ago
Why are you dissing disney's films? A lot of disney films are amazing (though their old ones are far superior to their new ones). Their old films were painted by HAND, the orchestra was directed specifically for the films, and it took a lot of hard work to make those films what they are. Have you ever watched the fox and the hound? It's a beautiful film. I don't see why you can't appreciate both. Instead you made a comment that just insults people who like disney and this.
oceangust 2 years ago 9
So sad :'(
LunaVorax 2 years ago
This is the most beautiful thing I think I've ever seen.
juneisok 2 years ago 5
Very good. Thank you for uploading this.
Surprisingly good translation as well- do you know who did the subtitles?
Kupokupkupo 2 years ago
Thanks, I did the subtitles (as for all of the films on my account).
Niffiwan 2 years ago
Except for any translations from Estonian (I think that's just "Frank & Wendy").
Niffiwan 2 years ago
Thank you for the subtitles! Would you happen to know the animator's information? I am aware of the studio but I am unable to find any of the artist's info.
juneisok 2 years ago
Click on the link in the description, click on the British flag, and you can see information in English. As far as I know, Yevgeniy Sivokon is still working, still making films in Ukraine, albeit for very little money. His latest films (1990s onward) are unfortunately impossible to find, because nobody cares about distributing them.
Niffiwan 2 years ago
...or even uploading them online somewhere...
Niffiwan 2 years ago
He has been working as a teacher for a long time. Nearly all contemporary animators in Ukraine were or are his students.
Niffiwan 2 years ago
This made me cry so much.
JeD131 2 years ago 4
That's....so cruel...but so true..... can be easilly applied on humans....Thank you for the upload!
natsuboushi33 2 years ago 2
There wasn't any food. Anyway thanks for showing this. I loved it.
ELETELEPHONY 2 years ago 2
way better than a talking sponge, 10/5 lmao!X**( sad ending.
2Kriss2Kross 2 years ago 3
i'm in love with this!
it's touching!!!
It's beatiful.
knedlesasljivama 2 years ago 6
I truly thank you for showing this.
deamandis 3 years ago