Hedgehog in the Fog (Russian: Ёжик в тума́не, Yozhik v tumane) is a 1975 Soviet animated film directed by Yuri Norstein, produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film was written by Sergei Lvovich Kozlov, who also published a book in Russian with the same name. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Yuri Norstein (Russian: Юрий Норштейн) is a Russian animator. ... The Studio Soyuzmultfilm is the most important Soviet animation film studio, founded in 1935 under the name of Soyuzdetmultfilm. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moskau (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ...

Plot

This is a story about a little hedgehog (voice of Mariya Vinogradova) and his friend bear cub (voice of Vyacheslav Nevinny). They would meet every evening to drink tea with raspberry jam, to gaze at the sky and to count the stars. But one time the hedgehog was passing through the wood to his friend and got lost in the fog. He finds himself in the strange world of the frightening creatures (eagle-owl and the bat) and helpful, kind ones (the dog, the horse) of the silence and rustles, of the darkness, high grass and attracting stars. All things around him are as if dreaming. Characters of the hedgehog and the bear cub are very sensitive, kind and romantic. In contrast, the eagle-owl is pragmatic, incapable of feeling the beauty of the surrounding world.

Other information

The skill of the animator coupled with the deep plot resulted in the magic and bewitching atmosphere of the whole film. Quoting a description from the database of the Soviet/Russian animated films: This film is impossible to tell, like music, like nature, like Beauty... [1] . It got the first prize for the best animated film at the All-Union Film Festival in Frunze 1976, also at the Children's and Youth Film Festival in Teheran the same year. In 2003 it was awarded the title of the best animated film of all times at the Laputa Animation Festival in Tokyo. An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Bishkek cityscape Bishkek (population in 2005 approx. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The modern skyline of Tokyo is highly decentralized. ...

External links

• Hedgehog in the Fog at the Internet Movie Database
• Fan page (in Russian)
• Laputa Animation Festival 2003 (in Japanese)