The Orange Neck

Name: The Orange Neck
Director: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Genre: Animation
Released: 1954-03-22
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Mariya Babanova, Georgiy Vitsin, Irina Gosheva, Yuri Medvedev, Valentina Telegina

1954

20m

Animation

Director: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

Writers: Nikolay Erdman, Vitalii Bianki

Overview

Two pairs of partridges, Brovkins and Podkovkins, hatch by twelve chicks. Podkovkins get acquainted with the lark, and both the Brovkins family are killed by a falcon. Podkovkin's wife, the Orange Neck, decides to adopt chicks as their own. In the autumn, she brings twenty-four chicks to a meeting of partridges, and she is chosen as the main chicken.