The Heron and the Crane

The Heron and the Crane
The Heron and the Crane
Russian	Цапля и журавль
Directed by	Yuri Norstein
Production; company	Soyuzmultfilm
Release date	1974;
Running time	10 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Heron and the Crane (Russian: Цапля и журавль, Tsaplya i zhuravl) is a 1974 10-minute ^[1] Soviet/Russian animated film directed by Yuri Norstein and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm.^[2]

Summary

Based on the folk tale about the unlucky never-ending courtship of the title characters (a male crane and a female heron, each changing their own minds).^[3]^[4]^[5]

Cast

Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Narrator's voice

References

External links

The Heron and the Crane at Yuri Norstein's official website (in English)
The Heron and the Crane at IMDb
The Heron and the Crane on MUBI
The Heron and the Crane on Letterboxd

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[1] Rotten Tomatoes

[2] Animafest.hr

[3] tor.ru

[4] Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets – Giannalberto Bendazzi – Google Books

[5] Yuri Norstein - after "The Overcoat"-Odessa Animation Studio

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v t e Works of Yuri Norstein
Director/Co-director	25th October, the First Day (1968) The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971) The Fox and the Hare (1973) The Heron and the Crane (1974) Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) Tale of Tales (1979) Winter Days (2003, segment) The Overcoat (TBA)
Animator (selected films)	Left-Hander (1964) Go There, Don't Know Where (1966) Times of the Year (1969) Cheburashka (1971) Shapoklyak (1974) 38 Parrots (1976) Autumn (1982) The Book of the Dead (2005)