SOYUZMULTFILM, 1973
Directed: Roman Davydov
Written Leonid Belokurov
Art directors: Alexander Vinokurov, Petr Repkin
Animators: Victor Likhachev, Victor Arsentiev, Alexander Davydov, Vitaly Bobrov, Vladimir Zarubin, Oleg Komarov, Oleg Safronov, Nikolai Fedorov, Fedor Yeldinov, Sergei Dezhkin
Cameraman: Elena Petrova
Music: Sophia Gubaidulina
Sound: George Martynuk
Script: Arcady Snessarev
Voice artists: Anatoly Papanov, A. Shabarin, Luciena Ovchinnikova, S. Bubnov, V. Ushakov, Sergei Martinson, A. Nazarov, L. Lubetsky, Ludmila Kassatkina
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Maugli (Russian: Маугли) is an animated feature-length story originally released as five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each between 1967 and 1971 in the Soviet Union. They were directed by Roman Davydov. In 1973, the five films were combined into a single 96-minute feature film. The Russian DVD release of the restored footage, distributed by "Krupnyy Plan" and "Lizard", separates the animation into the original five parts.
An English-language version made by Films by Jove was released direct-to-video in 1996 under the name Adventures of Mowgli. Maugli is the Russian word for Mowgli.
In the English language Charlton Heston is the Narrator. This is the second film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's work released in 1967. Even though the movie was not conceived as a reaction to the Disney adaptation, it proves an interesting contrast, being far truer to the primal and violent content of Kipling's original work.
Contents.
1 Plot
1.1 Episode 1 - "Raksha"
1.2 Episode 2 - "The Kidnapping"
1.3 Episode 3 - "Akela's Last Hunt"
1.4 Episode 4 - "The Fight"
1.5 Episode 5 - "Return to Mankind"
Episode 1 -"Raksha"
A young child, Maugli, wanders into a wolf cave in the jungle. The tiger Shere Khan (accompanied by his servant Tabaqui) appears at the entrance and demands that the wolves give him his prey, but the wolf mother Raksha refuses. He taunts them and says that the wolf pack will decide. Meanwhile, Tabaqui runs around the whole jungle and tells all the animals that a wolf pack has adopted a human.
The elders of the wolf pack watch a performance of the wolf cubs and Maugli, with Maugli matching the cubs' every step. The elders are evenly split about whether or not they should allow him to stay until they see Maugli pinch the nose of Tabaqui, who came up to taunt him. At this point, however, Shere Khan appears and demands that he be given his prey. Raksha and Baloo (the bear who instructs the young wolf cubs) come to his defence, but Shere Khan is undeterred until the panther Bagheera also appears and offers the wolf pack a freshly-killed bull in return for keeping Maugli alive. Shere Khan is forced to admit defeat, but vows that he will still eat Maugli one day.
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Episode 2 - "The Kidnapping"
Maugli and Raksha's cubs are being taught to hunt by Baloo, who also teaches them the call of the jungle: "Me and you are of the same blood". Then Bagheera appears and teaches Maugli to climb and jump between trees. The Bandar-logs in the trees watch Maugli perform and decide that he's just like them but without a tail. A short while later, they kidnap him while he's sleeping and take him to their city. Baloo and Bagheera run after him but decide that they need the help of the python Kaa. They don't know where to look until Chil the Kite, flying above them, tells them that he saw him being taken to the abandoned city; Maugli had used the call of the jungle as he was being carried away and asked him to help. Baloo and Bagheera arrive first and are both overwhelmed by the monkeys. Once Kaa arrives, the monkeys go still and sit quietly on the city ruins around him. Kaa begins a hypnotizing dance, and every so often tells the monkeys to come one step closer. Bagheera and Baloo are nearly caught in the trap as well until they are pulled away by Maugli, after which they leave the scene.
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The 4-th film from series of Jungle Book by R.Kippling. The flight of wolves rescues the Indian jungle from the invasion of the red dogs.
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Last film from a series of stories about Maugli on the motives of "Jungle Book" by R. Kipling. The story tells us about a little boy who was brought up by wolves. As a matter of fact, film is about education of the present person - clever and courageous, strong and fair, devoted to friends and irreconcilable to enemies.
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