The Cloud in Love

  • Genre: Animation
  • Run time: 19 min
  • Premiere: 1959. November 1.

A Cloud in Love is a unique film based on a script by a Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran (who lived in exile in Soviet Russia). It’s an allegorical story about an evil desert spirit who tries to destroy an oasis that is tendered by beautiful Aishe. Luckily, a Cloud falls in love with her and protects the oasis, although it costs him a life. It features mixed technique (puppets, marionettes, and hand-drawn animation).

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Art

Vladimir Sobolev

Art Direction

Valentina Vasilenko

Assistant Art Director

Viktor Kuranov

Property Master

Pavel Gusev

Property Master

Gennadiy Lutinskiy

Property Master

Oleg Masainov

Property Master

V. Chernikhova

Property Master

Roman Gurov

Property Graphic Designer

Camera

Mikhail Kamenetskiy

Director of Photography

Directing

Roman Kachanov

Director

Anatoliy Karanovich

Director

Production

Natan Bitman

Producer

Sound

Andrey Babaev

Original Music Composer

Boris Filchikov

Sound Director

Writing

Nazım Hikmet Ran

Writer

V. Tulyakova

Script Editor

Art

Vladimir Sobolev

Art Direction

Valentina Vasilenko

Assistant Art Director

Viktor Kuranov

Property Master

Pavel Gusev

Property Master

Gennadiy Lutinskiy

Property Master

Oleg Masainov

Property Master

V. Chernikhova

Property Master

Roman Gurov

Property Graphic Designer

Camera

Mikhail Kamenetskiy

Director of Photography

Directing

Roman Kachanov

Director

Anatoliy Karanovich

Director

Production

Natan Bitman

Producer

Sound

Andrey Babaev

Original Music Composer

Boris Filchikov

Sound Director

Writing

Nazım Hikmet Ran

Writer

V. Tulyakova

Script Editor