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The Ugly Duckling

Garri BARDIN

Russia201075min Digi-Beta Color Korean Premiere

Synopsis

On a chicken-run, a misfit duckling is rejected and bullied everywhere he goes as he is not resembling the others. Outside, he sees a flock of migrating wild swans; he is excited but he cannot join them. Plasticine adaptation of the “The Ugly Duckling” by H.C. Andersen on Tchaikovsky’s “Swan’s Lake” music.

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Garri BARDIN

Garri Bardine was born in 1941, studied comedy at the school studio MKHAT and worked as an actor at the Drama Theater in Moscow. In 1975, he branched out into animation at the Soyouz moult film Studio and produced fifteen films as director and screenwriter in fifteen years. In 1991 he created his own studio, "Stayer," where he has worked with a group of artists who assist his projects. Four films have been shot over these years that also won numerous prizes. Currently, he is doing his new fifth film, which is to be completed this year.