A hedgehog on my blog

Hedgehog in the Fog [Yozhik v tumane]
by Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975

"This is a story about a little hedgehog (voice of Mariya Vinogradova) and his friend Bear Cub (voice of Vyacheslav Nevinniy). They would meet every evening to drink tea, count the stars and have conversations.

"One day, as usual, the hedgehog decided to bring raspberry marmelade. While passing through the woods on the way to his friend, the hedgehog finds a horse standing in a fog. He is curious as to whether the horse would suffocate if it lay down in the fog. Being an explorer, the hedgehog decides to explore the fog..."

Norshteyn was born in 1941 and he is still producing films. His 1979 production Tale of Tales, from what I've read so far, is considered one of the best animation films ever made.

A 424MB .avi version of Tale of Tales (s l o w connection, likely w/o subtitles) is here... while a long series of frame-grabs from the film is here.

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