Mister Twister

Mister Twister

1963 · 16 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy, Animation

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed with the Cook Travel Company to any boat or in the hotel was not "blacks, Malays and other riff-raff." Arriving in Leningrad, Twister and his family stayed at the hotel "Engleterre", and everything went smoothly until they saw on one of the floors the guest from Africa.

Directed by Anatoliy Karanovich

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Nikolay Litvinov Narrator (voice)

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