Known for Acting
Remake of the 1947 Soviet film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
Collective farmer Lyavon Chyh prefers private farming to public farming. For his beloved cow Krasuli, he tries to steal hay from a collective farm stack, refuses to consent to the wedding of his daughter Sonya with a zootechnician Misha, because the young people are going to live in a new comfortable house without a private plot. After all, he hoped that in the person of his son-in-law he would acquire a new employee in his vast household. Worried about rumors that household plots will be cut off, he complains to the regional committee.
The peasant sends his sons in search of rejuvenating apples. The eldest sons go to a tavern, and the youngest, with the help of a Gray Wolf, gets apples for his father and marries a beautiful Blue-eyed woman.
Based on the story of the same name by F. M. Dostoevsky, and staged by Moscow Art Theater named after. Gorky.
The cartoon is based on several Krylov's fables.
Children end up in Ancient Greece, where they learn the laws of physics from Archimedes.