Boniface's Holiday

Kanikuly Bonifatsiya

Soviet Union

1965

21 Min

Color

Russian

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Fyodor Khitruk, Milos Macourek

ANIM Dimitriy Anpilov, Galina Barinova, Yuriy Kuzyurin, Vladimir Morozov, Mariya Motruk, Eduard Nazarov, Yuriy Norshteyn, Leonid Nosyrev, Anatoliy Petrov, Igor Podgorskiy, Yana Volskaya

SOUND Georgiy Martynyuk

Synopsis

A circus lion goes back to Africa on holiday intending to fish, but finds himself performing circus tricks for the children.

Director

Khitruk was born in Tver, Russian Empire and came to Moscow to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with Soyuzmultfilm in 1938 as an animator. From 1962 onwards, he worked as a director. His first film The Story of a Crime was an immense success. Today, this film is seen as the beginning of a renaissance of Soviet animation after a two-decade-long life in the shadows of Socialist realism.

Diverging from the “naturalistic” Disney-like canons that were reigning in the 1950-60s in Soviet animated cartoons, he created his own style, which was laconic yet multi-level, non-trivial and vivid.

He is the director of outstanding animated short films including such classics as his social satire of bureaucrats, Chelovek v ramke (The Man in the Frame) (1966), the philosophic parable, Ostrov (Island) (1973) about the loneliness of a man in modern society, the biographical film Ein Junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Portrait… read more

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Anton Williams

15Feb11

Turquoise sweater that grandma gives Boniface makes him look like a 70s R&B star Lionel Richie

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Nohea

18Jul10

aww the delightful Boniface..Boniface means adventure: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/boniface-the-scuba-diving_n_636330.html#s110419

Kenji

30May10

You don't need 3d and computers and fancy technique; the spirit of a film matters far more. Our lion-hearted hero, nonchalant master of the high wire, magician and juggler of equal panache, sets off by train and then ship in one of the most charming, delightful and brighty colourful little films you could wish to see.