How the Musician Duckling Became a Footballer (1978)
A heartwarming cartoon for little ones about two ducklings — a football player and a musician — who promised a beautiful duck that they would learn to play: the football player on the trumpet, and the musician would play football. The musician-duck trained hard for a whole month, while the football player did nothing: "You just blow harder and play; what’s there to learn?" And after a month, they finally showed what they had accomplished...
Director: Vitold Bordzilovskiy
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Georgiy Vitsin as Утёнок-хулиган |
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Klara Rumyanova as Уточка-девочка |
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Lidiya Kataeva as |
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Tamara Dmitrieva as |
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M. Frolova as songs |
| Directing | Vitold Bordzilovskiy | Director |
| Writing | Anatoliy Taraskin | Writer |
| Art | Vladimir Sobolev | Art Direction |
| Camera | Boris Kotov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Vladislav Kazenin | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Boris Filchikov | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Oleg Safronov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Renata Mirenkova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Vladimir Zarubin | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Panov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Iosif Kuroyan | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Sergey Dyozhkin | Animation |
| Editing | Elena Tertychnaya | Editor |
| Art | Inna Zaruba | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Irina Svetlitsa | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Irina Troyanova | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Dmitriy Anpilov | Background Designer |
| Art | Anna Atamanova | Storyboard Artist |
| Directing | Raisa Makarova | Assistant Director |
| Art | Roza Bikmaeva | Assistant Art Director |
| Camera | Mayya Popova | Assistant Camera |
| Writing | Raisa Frichinskaya | Script Editor |
| Production | K. Antonov | Producer |
| Art | Pyotr Korobaev | Storyboard Artist |