Long Before When We Were the Birds (1982)
Story based on an ancient Gypsy Proverbs, which talked about how the thirst for gold, wealth deprived "Gypsy birds" their true form and turned into a wandering people.
Director: Garri Bardin
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Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya as |
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Rozaliya Erdenko as |
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Nikolay Erdenko as |
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Boris Tashkentskiy as |
| Directing | Garri Bardin | Director |
| Writing | Garri Bardin | Writer |
| Art | Elena Fyodorova | Art Direction |
| Sound | Nikolay Zhemchuzhnyy | Music |
| Writing | Nikolay Zhemchuzhnyy | Lyricist |
| Camera | Mikhail Druyan | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Sergey Khlebnikov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Boris Filchikov | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Zoya Kredushinskaya | Animation |
| Visual Effects | O. Volodina | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Zoya Monetova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Lyudmila Biryukova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nataliya Mikhaylova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tatyana Stroeva | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Lyudmila Krutovskaya | Animation |
| Editing | Margarita Mikheeva | Editor |
| Art | Elena Karavaeva | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Vera Kharitonova | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Zinaida Zarb | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | N. Klimov | Storyboard Artist |
| Writing | Yury Entin | Writer |
| Visual Effects | Marina Voskanyants | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Elvira Maslova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Antonina Alyoshina | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Viktor Likhachov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Anatoliy Abarenov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nikolay Fyodorov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tatyana Fadeeva | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Panov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Vladimir Vyshegorodtsev | Animation |
| Writing | Tatyana Paporova | Script Editor |
| Production | Ninel Lipnitskaya | Producer |