The Tale of the Priest and his Worker Balda (1940)
A self-loving and arrogant priest, strolling through the market square, is looking for a "cook, stable boy and carpenter" who would work for him diligently and a lot, and take only a little money for it. He meets a brave young man, Balda, who is hired as a servant by the popes for a purely symbolic payment - "a year for three cheeks on the forehead". Soon the Pope will have to learn the power of Balda's slap.
Director: Panteleymon Sazonov
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Leonid Pirogov as Balda (voice) |
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Yelena Tyapkina as Priest's Wife (voice) |
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Andrei Tutyshkin as Old Demon (voice) |
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Yuliya Yulskaya as Young Demon (voice) |
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Ivan Zalesskiy as Priest (voice) |
| Sound | Serafim Renskiy | Sound Director |
| Directing | Panteleymon Sazonov | Director |
| Writing | Alexander Pushkin | Novel |
| Sound | Iosif Kovner | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Panteleymon Sazonov | Writer |
| Visual Effects | Boris Dyozhkin | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Faina Epifanova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Boris Titov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Grigoriy Kozlov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Dmitriy Belov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mikhail Irtenyev | Animation |
| Art | Vladimir Bochkarev | Art Direction |
| Art | Yakov Reytman | Art Direction |
| Art | Vera Rodzhero | Background Designer |
| Art | Galina Nevzorova | Background Designer |
| Camera | Piama Alipova | Director of Photography |
| Crew | E. Golovanova | Technical Advisor |
