The Story of a Crime

The Story of a Crime
История одного преступления
Directed by Fyodor Khitruk
Screenplay by Michael Volpin
Narrated by Zinovy Gerdt
Music by Andrey Babaev
Production
company
Release dates
  • 1962 (1962)
Running time
 19 min. 54 sec.
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

The Story of a Crime (Russian: История одного преступления, translit. Istoriya odnogo prestupleniya) is a 1962 Soviet animated film directed by Fyodor Khitruk and based on a screenplay by Michael Volpin. It was produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The score is by Andrey Babaev, with sound editing by George Martynuk.

It was the first film by Khitruk, whose role in the history of Russian animation led him to be recognized as a People's Artist of the USSR and a Meritorious Artist, and to receive the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".

Plot summary

Noises at night made by rude neighbors cause the very friendly and peaceful Vasily Mamin to commit a crime. The cartoon serves as an explanation as of why such a brutal crime is committed at the beginning. It is a flashback at how Mamin spent his last 24 hours before the crime.

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Awards


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