The Little Grey Wolf Will Come to Heal the Wounds of the Red Era
The Little Grey Wolf Will Come to Heal the Wounds of the Red Era

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the theoretical and stylistic background of soviet auteur animation, with its political and social implications. It presents the relation between the actual context and the possibility of subterfuge, and proves that, in order to avoid censorship, animators had to subvert and revisit poetic theories that could be tackled both according to the socialist system and against it. Given its strong impact on younger generations, Russian auteur animation developed a defense system that consisted of intense poetical, emotional and fragmentary content. This poetics of escapism explains the creation of the best animation film of all times – Yuri Norstein’s “Skazka Skazok”, whose leitmotif song inspires the title of the article.

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