Crew
HN
Heinrich Navrotsky
Director of Photography
Yuri Norstein
Director
YO
Yu. Ostrovskiy
Writer
Children and Matches
19695m6.5 (6)
Animation
A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure. 1968-69 was a crucial period of transition for the animator, breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and co-direct films. Not listed on imdb, this is one - if not the first - of his first solo works as director.
