Made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Germans. The film won second prize at the XXII Leipzig Festival of Films for Children. In a German concentration camp Russian prisoners fashion a Don Quixote doll from a bit of metal. It becomes their symbol of hope. The lyrical film is bracketed with references to the Spanish Civil War, which led to decades of authoritarian rule by Generalissimo Franco, and the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile which toppled the socialist, pro-Soviet regime of Salvadore Allende. ('Clear skies' was the codeword which launched Francos 1936 coup, supported by the fascist governments of Italy and Germany and opposed by the USSR and France).
Crew
Boris Ablynin
Director
Aleksandra Sviridova
Writer
Elena Nikitkina
Script Editor
Nadezhda Treshchyova
Editor
Aleksandr Vikhanskiy
Director of Photography
Grigoriy Khmara
Producer
Elena Gagarina
Animation
Sergey Kositsyn
Animation
Olga Panokina
Animation
Vladimir Kutuzov
Sound Director
Viktor Babushkin
Original Music Composer
Aleksandr Belyaev
Property Master
Mikhail Koltunov
Property Master
Oleg Masainov
Property Master
Pavel Gusev
Property Master
Vladimir Alisov
Property Master
Marina Kurchevskaya
Art Direction
