While walking with Yuki, I watched “Hedgehog in the Fog” again. Listen, pure discoveries. I always thought he walked with a little bundle tied to a stick. Turns out, he was just carrying the bundle in his paws, and the stick was there to poke into the fog. Did you also imagine him carrying a bundle on a stick, or was it just me?
Then I thought he was wandering around shouting “horsey!” But it turns out, he only said horse sadly once, and that’s it. And actually, the horse was off to the side, and his friend, a bear cub, was calling him off-screen throughout the cartoon.
It also turned out that the hedgehog speaks with the voice of Uncle Fyodor from “Prostokvashino”.
I read also that they made the animation simply by moving cut-out characters at different distances from ordinary tracing paper.
After that, Norstein has been shooting “The Overcoat” based on Gogol since 1981. Still not finished.
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