Where ‘The Big Secret for a Small Company’ arises from (about reminiscences in one Soviet cartoon)

Abstract

The article of Maria Akhmetova “Where ‘The Big Secret for a Small
Company’ arises from (about reminiscences in one Soviet cartoon)” ex-
amines the cartoon Big Secret for a Small Company (1979, script and
texts were written by Iunna Moritz, the cartoon was directed by Iulian
Kalisher). The paper reveals various literary and cultural reminiscences;
the main attention is paid to the variation of the evangelical episode
of the three Christ’s temptations, which determines the plot and the sys-
tem of images in the cartoon.
Key words: children’s poetry, Soviet animation, Yunna Moritz, Ju-
lian Kalisher, allusions, reminiscences, evangelic text in the modern
culture, symbols of animals.