New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya

New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya
Directed by Igor Usov
Gennadi Kazansky
Written by Pavel Finn
Starring Natasha Simonova
Yura Nakhratov
Igor Efimov
Music by Gennady Gladkov
Cinematography Semyon Ivanov
L. Aleksandrov
L. Golubeev
Production
company
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
 71 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya (Russian: Новогодние приключения Маши и Вити, translit. Novogodnyie priklucheniya Mashi i Viti) is a 1975 Soviet children's film directed by Igor Usov and Gennadi Kazansky.[1][2]

Plot

Junior school-children Vitya and Masha are complete opposites; Vitya believes only in science and technology while Masha believes in miracles. At school during the hall's preparation for the New Year, Masha brings to life the sculpture of Father Frost with a magic spell, who teleports her and Vitya to a fairy-tale world to save the Snow Maiden: Koschei kidnapped the Snow Maiden to arrange the New Year for his evil spirits.

Father Frost gives the children three tips: 1) do not wait for anyone to help, but help everyone in need, 2) do not get lost in a difficult moment and 3) hold on to each other when in a bad situation. Learning this, Koschey sends them an impure force - the vocal-instrumental trio "Wild Guitars": Baba Yaga, Leshy and Wild Cat Matvei. Masha and Vitya fly away on a mortar and pestle from Baba Yaga. Vitya strikes Leshy with a self-made electroshock weapon. He also distracts Wild Cat Matvei, who runs around the forest with a big slingshot, using a mechanical mouse.

On the way to kingdom Koshcheevo, Masha and Vitya also meet the Stove, Apple Tree and Old Man-Forester and help them, and in return they show the children the way with the help of a charcoal, an apple and a ball. But at the last moment Koshchei abducts Masha and lowers her on the elevator to his dungeon. Soon it turns out that Koshchei's teeth hurt, and Masha relieves the sorcerer's toothache with a healing rinse in exchange for the Snow Maiden's release. Vitya summons Koshchei to a duel and defeats him with an ordinary magnet. "Wild Guitars" go in pursuit of children, but Stove, Apple Tree and Old Man-Forester help Vitya and Masha, and they return to school with the Snow Maiden, where children and Father Frost are waiting for them.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Новогодние приключения Маши и Вити. Х/ф". Russia-1.
  2. ↑ "Сказка больше чем жизнь". Moskovskij Komsomolets.

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