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Svitlana Kutsenko
Born April 14, 1940 · Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Died January 9, 2017 · aged 76
No biography available.
Known For
Let It Rain, Let It Rain! · 1982Let It Rain, Let It Rain!
1982
MovieAnimation
Little Thunder dreams of growing up and wants to thunder and cause rain. For now, Grandpa Thunder does not allow him to do this and instructs him only to look for places on Earth where rain is needed.
Savushkin, Who Didn't Believe in Miracles · 1983Savushkin, Who Didn't Believe in Miracles
★ 6.01983
MovieAnimation
How many times did a miracle come to the pragmatic clerk Savushkin - and each time he brushed it off, and then powerlessly watched how the miracle and happiness go to another.
About The Hippopotamus Named Well-Let-It · 1986About The Hippopotamus Named Well-Let-It
1986
MovieAnimation
A story with a moral about a hippopotamus who misused the expression "well let it", a boastful crocodile, a parrot who, as always, is innocent, a turtle and a wise monkey.
The Story Of The Girl Who Stepped On Bread · 1986The Story Of The Girl Who Stepped On Bread
★ 7.01986
MovieAnimation
The girl Inge was good and loved... herself very much. Inge was given bread to take to her poor parents, and she, crossing a puddle and afraid to dirty her new shoes, threw the bread in the mud and stepped on it. From such a terrible act, the earth parted and swallowed her. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
Stone Age · 1987Stone Age
★ 8.01987
MovieAnimation
This film was shot as a trophy during one of the many inhuman wars. Thanks to unique means of restoration, it was possible to restore footage taken in the Stone Age.
The Truth Close-Up · 1988The Truth Close-Up
★ 9.01988
MovieAnimation
An animated short film that deconstructs and exposes the exhausted Soviet cliches in search of truth which is traditional for glasnost and perestroika era.
A Favour · 1983A Favour
★ 6.51983
MovieAnimation
Mistress Hen has a lot of worries every day. She needs to feed the chickens, take them to kindergarten, clean, iron, and prepare dinner. But how to cook something without salt? Hen goes to the neighbor Goose to borrow salt, but she asks to do her a favour. A simple request triggers a whole cascade of favours that must be arranged to get...salt. The cartoon satirically mirrors the rampant barter and blat in the poor Soviet society of the late "stagnation" era.
Ivasyk-Telesyk · 1989Ivasyk-Telesyk
★ 4.51989
MovieFamilyAnimation
The animation is based on a Ukrainian fairy tale about an old married couple, who had no children. One day the woman asked her husband to cut down a log and put it in a cradle for a night. The old man did what she had asked him to do. Next morning, a surprise was waiting for them.

















