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The Legend of the Old Lighthouse
Легенда о старом маяке
Production country: USSR
Year of production: 1976
Length: 20 min.
Rating (age category): 6+
Film-category (genre): animation
Director: Vitold Bordzilovsky
Producer: Lyubov Butyrina
Screenwriter: Zhanna Vitenzon
Composer: Alexander Gradsky
DOP: Kabul Rasulov
Editor: Galina Smirnova
Production designer: Vladimir Sobolev
Production company: Soyuzmultfilm
The adventures of the kids who help light the lighthouse so that Soviet ships can enter the bay and defeat the Nazis.
  • Vitold Bordzilovsky
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    Vitold Bordzilovsky is a Soviet director and production designer of cartoons. He studied at the Azerbaijan Art School. After graduation, he worked as a designer. After the war, he entered the art department of VGIK, where he studied from 1948 to 1954. He began working at Soyuzmultfilm in 1954. At first, he worked as a production designer, and from 1966, as a director.

    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    1976 – Просто так
    1991 – New Year's Tree Festival
    1978 – How a Musician Duckling Became a Football Player
    1978 – Father Frost and the Gray Wolf
    1976 – The Legend of the Old Lighthouse
    1974 – A Bag of Apples