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The Grasshopper and the Ant

19134 minRussia
AnimationFantasy

Synopsis

While an ant gathers provisions, a grasshopper spends the warm months playing music and drinking with a beetle. Winter exposes the consequences of their different choices. The grasshopper turns to the ant for shelter, but the request meets a harsh response.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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4:48
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Władysław Starewicz · Public domain

DirectorsLadislas Starevich

Inspirations

Starevich adapts Ivan Krylov's version of the fable associated with Aesop through stop-motion insects. Although the Russian title is often translated with the word dragonfly, the pleasure-seeking character is represented as a grasshopper.

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