The Little Humpbacked Horse (1947 film)

The Little Humpbacked Horse
DVD cover (Krupnyy Plan)
Directed byI. Ivanov-Vano
B. Butakov
Screenplay byA. Surkov
A. Volkov
Story byP. Ershov
Based onThe Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov
Produced byC.B. Wismar
StarringGeorgiy Millyar
Georgy Vitsin
Valentina Sperantova
Anatoly Kubatsky
Leonid Pirogov
Alexander Kachanov
CinematographyN. Voinov
Edited byE. Tertychnaya
Music byV. Oranskiy
Distributed bySoyuzmultfilm
Release dates
  • January 10, 1947 (1947-01-10) (USSR)
  • May 5, 1949 (1949-05-05) (USA)
Running time
57 minutes
CountrySoviet Russia
LanguageRussian

The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к; tr.:Konyok Gorbunok, that is The Little Horse - Little Humpback), is a 1947 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film directed by I. Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on the literary fairy tale poem with the same title by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, and because of this, it is spoken in rhyme. The English dub has few rhymes and is not an overall feature.

A remake also by Ivanov-Vano and Soyuzmultfilm was released in 1975. This version, translated in English by George Molko, was released on November 18, 1977, as The Magic Pony.