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Thumbelina

1964 · 30 min

A gentle, storybook animated short that unfolds at a calm pace with simple charm and a touch of romance.

Directed by: Leonid Amalrik
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family
Starring: Erast Garin, Sergei Martinson, Georgiy Vitsin

Overview: A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".

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Directed by: Leonid Amalrik
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family
Starring: Erast Garin, Sergei Martinson, Georgiy Vitsin

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
identity
survival
Places: fantasy world
countryside
Era: timeless
Audience: family
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	1
Romance	4
Tension	2
Darkness	2
Complexity	2
Emotional weight	3

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Genres: adventure, animation, family, romance
Directed by: Leonid Amalrik
Written by: Nikolay Erdman
Starring: Erast Garin, Sergei Martinson, Georgiy Vitsin, Mikhail Yanshin, Igor Vlasov
Music: Nikita Bogoslovskiy
Cinematography: Mikhail Druyan
Runtime: 30 min
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian

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