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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Jungle Book (Russian cartoon)--Маугли (1973 movie)

Here is a lovely cartoon version of the Jungle Book called Маугли (= Mowgli). It was released in the Soviet Union in 1973: Мультфильм "Маугли" (Мультфильм = cartoon). There is no dialog in the first three minutes. The first word (in Russian) is at 3:25, when a wolf says человек ("a person, a human"):





The music and the images are very different from the Walt Disney version of 1967. What do you think of this Russian movie? Please leave a comment.