• Warning: Spoilers
    "Po sledam bremenskikh muzykantov" is a Soviet 18.5-minute short film from 40 years ago. Writer and director is Vasiliy Livanov, who also wrote the prequel to this film from 4 years earlier. Not only the runtime is very similar, the animation style is too and also the fact that there is no talking in here, just singing. I must say I did not like the first a lot and same goes for this one. The characters just look pretty bad sometimes, especially the human characters. The animal characters in this Brothers-Grimm-based film are okay for the most part. But the animation really is not. The 1960s and 1970s are not exactly considered great decades for animated films and this is another example. Do not be fooled by the IMDb rating. No idea why these 2 films are considered classics in terms of Soviet animation. I have seen other films from that era from Eastern Europe and there are certainly some much better example in terms of quality. As for this on here, there are shots when a mass of people are still, not moving at all. There are other shots, for example a shot of the female protagonist, a princess or so, that is completely still for 5 seconds perhaps. Not quality filmmaking. Not recommended. The story is also not too easy to understand.