Having seen the original and a different dub, this is in many ways the most butchered version... but also, the all-around best. These people knew what they were doing.

@chun_lisfii3596

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the most butchered. The worst.

@celebrith8139

4 жыл бұрын

Butchered indeed. It's absolutely awful.

@SquizzMe

4 жыл бұрын

What would you say is the best?

@emmanitamuscaria2104

4 жыл бұрын

I've seen this same animation for the snow queen and it's absolutely one of my favourite movies! What is the original language if not English? I always thought the voices seemed a bit "off" although didn't put me off because of such incredible animation and story telling ❤️

@calmcloudlesssky3443

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmanitamuscaria2104 Russian, of all things. ("Of all things" because I recall a Cambodian dragon fable about the cycle of tyranny on either this VHS or the accompanying one featuring Perrault's Beauty and the Beast. That may not have been a Russian production. But this definitely was.)

I wish today’s cartoons were like this for kids to see. Amazing avant garde graphics, they enhance imagination so much. Love this Andersen story, and imo every kid should watch it 😍

@Jesse.822

10 ай бұрын

May your wish be granted.🪭🕯️🕯️

I use to watch this a few times as a kid and today I saw an illustration/artwork that triggered flashes of scenes from this and I could not think of what it was called or what it was about. I kept mentally searching and more parts came back in flashes and I could finally put enough together to google: children morphing into swans. And found it! So excited.

@katesharpe6657

4 жыл бұрын

oh my god saaaaammmmeee

@graceluna3247

3 жыл бұрын

Same!!!!!

@nicoledineley1458

3 жыл бұрын

same here

@manthilabaduraliyage385

2 жыл бұрын

Same situation but 7 years later lol. I remember watching this 20 years ago

@tiktokbih718

2 жыл бұрын

Yes i wach it

Oh god. I remember watching this everyday when I was around four years old. I never got tired of this. And I still love it as much as I did when I was 4.

A most evil and sad story but it reminds us that consistent hard work, devotion and sacrifice can conquer anything!! A great version, thanks!!

True art. The music and drawings are superb. Russians made the best cartoons and animation for decades and were sought after in Hollywood after the Berlin Wall came down.

@derp_gamer7596

3 жыл бұрын

And... Where we are now?

@WetaMantis

3 жыл бұрын

Lel

@NoreenHoltzen

2 жыл бұрын

Put the wall back up!

To think no child might ever have the pleasure I had when my mother softly read these fables to me like the Swan; the little match girl, many others saddens me. Thank you for this.

Watched this a kid, hard to believe this is really something I watched and not some weird fever dream. Still just as amazing as I remember

Wow, how your Soviets could convey emotions, it is hard to not hold back tears in a lot of places!

This is missing -- When Elisa throws the shirts over the swans, her brothers return to their human forms. (Sadly, the youngest brother has a swan's wing instead of an arm, as Elisa did not have time to finish one sleeve of his shirt.)

@lindareese4579

3 жыл бұрын

I love this fairytale...it's one of the best...

@Katya_Lastochka

3 жыл бұрын

That's an entirely different Russian fairy-tale, called "дикие лебеди" or "wild swans".

@gionnijohnson69

3 жыл бұрын

At least he's a human again so that's a good thing.

Babam küçükken bunun dvd sini almıştı.Türkce dublajdı o tabi. En sevdiğim çizgi filimimdi bir haftada kaç kez izlediğimi hatırlayamıyorum bile tekrar tekrar izlerdim.Hikayesini kızın verdiği mücadeleyi o kadar sahiplenmişim ki yıllardır arıyordum ismini hatırlamaya çalışıyordum hep sonunda evet burda ve çok mutluyum.Umarım türkçe altyazı hali çıkar...🥰🥰🥰

I am proud that my country made this. I think this is not usual cartooon. It's art..

@vladivanov2110

7 жыл бұрын

this cartoon was made in the ussr in the 60s

@annamarie8420

6 жыл бұрын

im not proud of you

@somaray2849

6 жыл бұрын

This movie is nice

@quiteswordss9737

4 жыл бұрын

Такой страны как СССР , к сожалению, уже нет.

That's a real alcohol & tobacco voice. I can picture him sitting in comfy 1940's armchair. A glass of whisky beside him in little table, and smoking pipe in other hand, and reading the book to kids sitting in floor.

@charlottegoddard3091

3 жыл бұрын

wow good and u do'''t now et is bad?

I have not seen this, in about twenty years, since I was a little kid.

the animation is gorgeous!

@charlottegoddard3091

3 жыл бұрын

no et is not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@gionnijohnson3741

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlottegoddard3091 WTF are you talking about?

The prince rather reminded me of Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty. Wonderful animation and musical score.

@mollymcmurtrie8037

3 жыл бұрын

It much more complex and much better.

I grew up with this cartoon. Ooh man it's kind of crazy

OMG they CUT OUT my favorite song of the Prince to Elise! His voice was perfect!

@CCC-rd3gc

6 жыл бұрын

они изуродовали наши мультики... зла на них не хватает

@thespianpeacock

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGWBtLuCqsXKkbw.html

@8Todote8

Жыл бұрын

@@CCC-rd3gc а что они сделали с Коньком-Горбунком... с Маугли...

Like old movies like this. They make me feel good

Ностальгиииия ❤, старый добрый советский мультик)😊

I wish I could find the version that I had as a kid, it had more 80s themed music and was in English. It's good to finally watch it again after so long though. :)

@lesleyflores1582

2 жыл бұрын

you might be thinking of the Just for Kids version

Ahhhh, brings back memories. One of my favourites 😊

I would love for this to get a Japanese dub. This was one of Soyuzmultfilm's finest works.

This was my favorite childhood movie, I still have it on vhs !!! 🥰

I am so glad I found this. It brings back memories of my childhood.

Oh my, I remember this from my childhood, how wonderful to watch it again! Thank you so much for uploading it!

I do love this story this aka the Wild Swans and the Snow Queen written by Hans Christian Andersen and I agree if you truly love someone you do anything to save them no matter what

@TineBeo

Жыл бұрын

adapted by him from ancient Irish myth...the Children of Lir

I've loved this version ever since I was a kid. The music and animation are beautiful.

I love the classic feel and the voices are superb.

I love this movie and I've been looking for it for years! So much love for this movie! 👍🏻 💚 👏🏻😘💚👍🏻

OMG I still remember this movie when I was young! Thank you for uploading this!

thank you so much for uploading 💞 glad i found it, i watched this when i was a child

wow..i remember watching this movie. i kinda remember the song that was played in this movie it went something like "the swans they're lost in the dream" lol gosh this movie brings back memories...

This is the version I remember watching in 2nd grade music class aside from Walt Disney's adaptation of Peter and the Wolf.

@aalloy6881

3 жыл бұрын

That wolf was SCARY, yes?

All these are oldest are goodies and this story is beautiful thank you.

Even i love Soviet version of many of this fairies...i grew up watching them.ahhh sweet memories of childhood

I loved their faerie tale as a kid, and I still love it now

Sadly this is almost completely different from what my VHS version sounds like.... Ima have to pull them out and try to put em on disk to preserve them

Thank you so much for sharing. What a wonderful work of art! 🌹

On 3:25 to me, that reminds of Walt Disney's version of the wild swans. It is so wonderful.

Great story and a great video. Thank you very much for you time and labout

I had these VHS and I miss them so much! I’d binge them all the time 😢🥹🥰

Beautiful thanks for sharing! A childhood favorite

this was beautifully sad. i like that she was true to her brothers and help them in the end i was worried that it would in end in sadness as much of Christian Hans story do.

this is sad. I still own a VHS copy of the original movie and this version has be changed and this is not completely how the story goes

@roseoznz

8 жыл бұрын

+Nami Gen check the rest of the comments, there are other versions linked. we all seem to prefer the one we watched as kids, no surprise there.

@The_sweetish_chef

8 жыл бұрын

+Nami Gen I've been having the same problem! The voices and narration are not how I remember the movie being.

@Lollyta1298

8 жыл бұрын

+roseoznz Yes, but the original stays the original (the russian version), and it is strange to see that in every other version, they had to change everything.

@user-lh8hg8iq8c

8 жыл бұрын

that is normal for all the tails. here, take a look what I` ve red before! (put it in translate)ljubopitno.com/horor-originalnite-versii-na-detskite-prikazki

@kaenamayesabando4360

7 жыл бұрын

I know right

i don't remember how old I was the first time I watched this movie, I do know i owned it on VHS though...think we got through the mail...lol. video club? I love this. the art is good and the story is so touching..

I remember watching these when I was a kid, I don't know exactly how old I was but I was really young and I watched it just once but I remember the story so well.. I don't know if I owned a VCD version or if I saw this on TV.. but I love this and hope they make a 3D animation out of this or a live action movie!!!

This is the one I grew up on this exact narration it's 2018 and I'm here I had this on VHS TAPE it took me forever to find this

I sat here and watched this for the whole hour eating baby gherkin pickles and drinking ice tea and coloring fot the whole hour. And it was great!

"She will be given straw to eat and gasoline to drink so she will burn more hotly." ... Wut?

@milcahreyes5287

4 жыл бұрын

that could be a joke by the archbishop -- oops -- prime minster guy

@user-kv5jk5dg5n

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that’s super dumb, I’ve no idea who translated it like this. In the original they say: «Приказ короля! Преступную королевскую невесту бросить в темницу! Приказ короля! Приковать к стене, кормить одним хлебом, вместо подстилки дать ей её крапиву! Приказ короля! Завтра сжечь её на городской площади! Так приказал король!», which means «The King's order! Throw the criminal royal bride into the dungeon! The King's order! Chain her to the wall, feed her only bread, give her her nettles instead of bedding! The King's order! Burn it in the town square tomorrow! The King ordered it!» So, no straw or gasoline, just bread, and that is just to show her that she’s not to be treated like king’s bride anymore, but only like a witch and a prisoner.

The songs were cut from the film. Eliza's song (at the beginning of the film) and the Prince's song

bro this is it cool hope u drop more bangers

i have a different version of this on tape (VHS) with no narration.

I've been looking for this! now I know the name of it. :) my childhood

Beautiful! Im glad I found it ^_^

Russian animation is definitely underlooked compared to its American, European, and Japanese counterparts.

You should cite your materials correctly. This is a dubbed version of a Soviet cartoon from 1962 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Swans_(film). Thanks for sharing the English version!

@roseoznz

10 жыл бұрын

thanks, added

The evil Queen reminds me of mother gothel, Tangled

This freakes me out a little at the same time but so many memories 2019

I remember this movie from when I was little! Thank you so much!

This story is an exact replica of a thousand year old mythical Irish tale called 'The Children of Lir'. One of the 'Three Sorrows of Irish Storytelling'

i used to watch this all the time when i was a kid... happy days

I'm still looking for the version I grew up with. It had no narrator and when the witch made the frogs on the last one she said "and you my sweet. You will make her old." If anyone has found that version let me know.

The one thing I'll always dislike about this story is that he expects her to speak. Why can't he just come to conclude that she is mute?

@SaChibiKon

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think you can't expect people in that time to have met a mute human before, they haven't had the possibilities to inform themselves too well.

@lizzychrome7630

5 жыл бұрын

@@SaChibiKon But mute people were known to exist back then. And even if they didn't, you'd think after a while the prince would just get it through his head that she can not talk.

Unfortunately, there is no decent English translations. Look cartoon in Russian with subtitles.

This is a VHS I remember from my youth. At the end, there was a story called The Woodcutter's Wish - basically, woodcutter gets Wish spell from D&D, uses it to court princess, princess's evil advisor tries and fails to use it to his advantage. And there was a companion VHS labeled Charles Perrault, containing Beauty and the Beast and - here's what I really want to see - a crazy dragon-slaying myth which, to my memory, is metaphorical for the cycle of tyranny. Hard to believe that last is of Soviet make, but anyway, it was totally packaged by these VidAmerica people and if there's any way you could post that, I would love it.

@user-ny2ir1dx2m

2 жыл бұрын

this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKtkwcWtYsTLnbg.html

This was my favorite childhood story ^^

I LOVED THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER

i grew up watching another version with different voices and these amazing songs D: cant find that anywhere online though :/

@tamagomaniac

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah! I grew up with the beautiful singing version tooooo

@mcnattmc

9 жыл бұрын

ya that's what I'm trying to find too!!

@Sailormoonsuperfan94

9 жыл бұрын

hey are you guys looking for the one by Grims Fairytale Classics - the Six Swans? :)) Think it could be it, check it out and let me know! Good luck :)

@nfdfneq

9 жыл бұрын

Original russian animation with english subtitles: www.dailymotion.com/video/xzk1m8_wild-swans-1962-dikie-lebedi-russian-animation-english-subs_shortfilms

@nathancollins8347

9 жыл бұрын

+Autumn

I can't believe I hadn't thought of this for years-- but I watched my english version VHS so much, I absolutely loved it.

i love the art

I love this story,have read it over and over. Just now realized how bad that looked. Most evil spell made her black XD

@GypsyFairy85

9 жыл бұрын

In the version I remember as a child the evil queen/stepmother rubs her face with walnut juice(it does work as a dye turning things brown) and messes up Elise/Lisa's hair.

Thanks for posting! This was one of my favorite fairy tales growing up.

I wish they would make a movie or even a cartoon about the novel "Daugher of the Forest" by Juliet Marillier (which is based on this fairy tale but has also a historical aspect to it).

Like a poem.. 😍සුප්පා

"Sisterrrr... weee are swaaaaaaanssss...." O_o geezuz, did this freak anyone else out? They sound like the twins from the Shining. 😣

Beuatiful!

I have not seen this in almost twenty years!

dear crow, hans Christian andersen had no children xD

this video brings , lot of good memories, i love this video .

I'd kill for the original video of this that I grew up with. This is not only different audio-its been cut apart and had scenes switched around.

I remember this version :) ahh good days

The Shirley Temple Storybook show did a version of this story(but there were only three swan princes in that version).A few years later when I was in third grade,my teacher read it to the class.I later read the story in the second volume of a three volume series The Family Treasury of Children's Stories.

wow.. this is one old movie

This remember me last unicorn movie. I love The bad witch voice acting perfect.

this animation is incredible

"Maybe she's better than she looks, I mean she'd have to be..." #ShotsFired

41:51 - 41-58 was clearly inserted from a different Soviet animated film.

Where is the song Elise sings to her brothers on the island?? I loved it when I watched the movie!!

OK so like that first dream she had about her brothers like is freaking creepy

Why did they add so much author's text? As if it were impossible to understand the meaning without it. In the original there are only dialogs. And they also excluded the king's aria - the most beautiful cartoon love song according to my child's memories. 42 : 10 Дикие лебеди (по мотивам сказки Г.Х.Андерсена)

@monika777alam

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKRp2tufeq6vodo.html&feature=emb_logo

Bernard Evslin is one of my favorite writers.

It's weird when it's not in Russian... No seriously.. Weird.. also for all those people who commenting that the witch looks like a clown? It's was made on purpose. It looks like the Snow Queen. It's art.

The English versions are cut and wrongly translated at times. I recommend watching the originals with subtitles. And I have to say, when I look back at my childhood, growing up in the 90s, Soviet cartoons brought me so much joy. But some of them have impacted me deeply. I was a happy kid, but I remember feeling deep anguish over the Little Mermaid, the Wild Swans, the Snow Queen, and the Ugly Duckling. Come to find out, its from the same author. Its too bad Hans was a pederast.

Even though I'm from the USA I've never seen this before or on Tv ever and not even in a book dam what am I missing out on in the Eastern world?

@rodjarrow6575

5 жыл бұрын

You have missed several generations of Soyuzmultfilm products. Alas, this is the result of the cold war of old farting politicians ( like McCain ) between the Western and Eastern world.

When the witch chanted the spell, it rained immediatly!!!!!! OMG

I had a version of this on vhs with a completely different English audio track. It was under the name "The Princess and the Swans". I can never find this with that audio

I am 98% sure that the prince has the same VA as the English voice of Speed Racer.

this story needs to remastered this animated like anime or disney :)

"There are lots of princesses in these stories who get into all kinds of dangers; and for every princess, there is a prince there to save her from the danger." 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@IndecentLouie

4 жыл бұрын

Its cringe inducing, but it is a cartoon for kids made almost 60 years ago.

@eyeball_freak

4 жыл бұрын

I feel obligated to mention that isn’t in the original Russian film. There’s barely any narration and it’s mostly show don’t tell.