Who is the Strongest? (1961)
The brothers Papolya and Nyakochi argued over who should chop the wood and who was stronger. In the struggle, Nyakochi knocked down his brother, but slipped on an ice floe. So the ice floe is stronger than Nyakochi? But the sun melted the ice floe, the cloud covered the sun, the wind dispersed the clouds, the rock stopped the wind, the tree destroyed the rock, and Nyakochi and Papolya cut down the tree. Based on a Nenets folk tale.
Director: Vladimir Degtyarev
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Mariya Vinogradova as (voice, incredited) |
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Tamara Dmitrieva as (voice, uncredited) |
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Georgi Millyar as (voice, uncredited) |
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Klara Rumyanova as Ice floe (voice, uncredited) |
| Directing | Vladimir Degtyarev | Director |
| Writing | Grigoriy Koltunov | Writer |
| Camera | Nikolay Grinberg | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Yuriy Levitin | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Georgiy Martynyuk | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Pavel Petrov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kirill Mamonov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Lev Zhdanov | Animation |
| Directing | A. Dymich | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Vera Gokke | Editor |
| Art | Vladimir Degtyarev | Art Direction |
| Writing | Boris Voronov | Script Editor |
| Art | Gennadiy Lutinskiy | Property Master |
| Art | Vladimir Alisov | Property Master |
| Art | Vera Kalashnikova | Property Master |
| Art | Roman Gurov | Property Graphic Designer |
| Production | Natan Bitman | Executive Producer |