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The most precious thing in our crazy life and at the same time the most depreciated is the feeling of the natural. Such a state of humanity is temporary, but due to the short duration of our life we ​​do not know anything else. There is no better way to assess the state of mankind than by those fairy tales that grandmothers tell their grandchildren.

Eternal glory to the genius of Vladimir Propp.

So, we begin a new fairy tale. First there was chaos. The frost crackled, the Sun burned, the wind blew, it rained. Then the twelve brothers-months, with the help of a magic wand, stopped the chaos and established order in the world. Once a year, brothers-months, guardians of nature, gather on New Year’s Eve for a magical ceremony – the procedure for recharging the magic wand with energy for the whole next year. And so everything in the world would go on twelve steps annually, but Masha intervened in the process, while the bear was sleeping.

The bear was against it, and in general he slept, as it should be in winter by bear nature. But, as usual, they didn’t ask him.

How can you take away a holiday from children?!

Young January is delighted: what a cheerful girl! Let’s hide from this fun.

Couldn’t hide. Seduced by Masha, January set off with her in all serious ways that only children endowed with magical powers can do.

Children at the age of Masha and January are all wizards. I note that the main characters are voiced by children. Today’s children are generally professionally advanced.

Are you a magician? – I am a magician! I am the master of ice. – And I’m the mistress of … carrots!

Masha, as always, starts talking before she can think of what she wants to say. She just had a carrot from a snow woman in her hands. Carrots went into a festive salad, which was planed by a homely and very correct bear, entirely made from traditional Russian values.

When the magic wand fell into Masha’s hands, everything started to spin.

Masha did wonders. The rod is discharged, and the world again for a thousand years is threatened by chaos.

Masha herself started recharging. The energy warmth of her heart was transferred to the senior in rank among the twelve. Together with it, the months again have the effect of community, and they radiate energy to charge the wand.

The tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it. The plot of the theatrical version of the new animation series “Masha and the Bear at the Movies: Twelve Months” is absolutely transparently transposed to the reality of the current moment in history. Keep in mind that this is a children’s version.

A more adult version was presented in three theatrical series of the animated Smeshariki with the disclosure of the motivations of the warring parties.

According to Wikipedia, “Masha and the Bear at the Cinema: 12 Months” is a cinema project by the Animaccord studio. The duration of the project is 46 minutes. It includes a 22-minute episode, which is unprecedented for an animated series, and three more new stories about Masha and the Bear of standard length – about football, role-playing games, Masha teaches Rose to fly.

The series are dramatic and are interconnected by common characteristic heroes, lively and natural. In addition, it is done in such a way that the characters seem to be watching a movie about themselves.

Directed by Vasily Bedoshvili. Producer – Elena Shchichkina. Scriptwriter – Maria Bolshakova, Cast: Yulia Zunikova – Masha, Boris Kutnevich – Medved, Artem Bozhutin – January, Larisa Brokhman – December, Diomid Vinogradov, Yulia Yablonskaya – months, Nikita Prozorovsky – narrator.

The situation in the cinema was an illustration of the discussion in the Duma on December 16 on the bill on the full financing of children’s and youth films. Deputy Vladimir Isakov begged to return the fairy tale to the screen and complained that The Last Hero was the same Disney.

And why, for example, is this not a fairy tale in the national style without admixtures about the locally venerated Murom saints Peter and Fevronia?

And Disney was different before. Let me remind you for example “Bambi” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. “Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm did not supplant, but supplemented the Russian version of Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs”.

The animated series “Masha and the Bear”, “Smeshariki”, “Fixies”, “Papers” dispel fears about the lack of scripts of the chairman of the Duma Committee on Culture Elena Yampolskaya. High-quality fairy tales are entertaining, educational and educational at the same time. A new stage in the development of Soviet animation with its masterpieces “Unusual Match”, “Grey Neck”, “Mitten”, “Spy Passions”, “Well, you wait!”, “Cheburashka”, the traditional version of “Twelve Months” and many others.

Watching is not reviewing.

Maybe I fancied that there are transgender people among the brothers-months. However, the tribute to Washington time did not help. There were few spectators in the hall. Two out of five couples with children present in the room left long before the end of the session. Did not like or impatient, I did not ask.

Personally, I liked it. Funny and cute, natural human feelings. Thirst for fame, jealousy, greed, passion for the stage or game. And in general, almost everything that a normal person is obsessed with. These kids are just like that.

“I am a beautiful princess, and everyone loves me” …

I know such a groovy Masha in life. This is an adult woman named Julia, who retained a passion for magic. She taught our children Vladimir and Natasha to act out a fairy tale on stage. Now they themselves work with children as figure skating coaches. This is a real fairy tale.

Lev MOSKOVKIN.

Photo by Sergey Kiselyov / Moskva agency