Russia's oldest animation company 索尤斯特姆 woeful

Feng Qian compile this reporter

According to the "Russian news" reported recently, Russia's oldest animation company 索尤斯特姆 (Soyuzmultfilm), has just celebrated its 75 birthday. But not what the company is no longer brilliant. As the intense market competition, lack of funds and other reasons, the company is now developing into a serious problem, woeful.

The newspaper, Soyuzmultfilm group had also sent a letter to employees last month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, hoping he can and moral capital of the company for help. The letter said, Soyuzmultfilm now only the empty corridors and deserted sparse room, in addition is a dead silence, due to funding shortfalls in the studio has not independently create a new anime.

According to Radio Free Europe reported, Soyuzmultfilm was founded in 1936 and headquartered in Moscow, the studio was originally formed by several scattered. After its establishment, attracted to a group at the time the Soviet Union's best artists, these artists give up national decree advocacy video, put into the creation of children's animation. Their high aesthetic qualities combined with the animation, so that the film is full of profound meaning. The production of animation it has won many international awards, known for its diversity of style to the former Soviet Union's most influential animation studio. From 1936 to 1991, the studio produced a total of about 1500 anime. In the 1970s peak, Soyuzmultfilm has more than 200 artists, 30 works are produced annually. Their efforts, let Soyuzmultfilm one of the world one of the best animation studio. Soyuzmultfilm's wealth of creativity, thanks in part to the Soviet Union's unique structure, so the studio can not consider the film's commercial value. In Soviet times, regardless of animators who sell their works of how popular or how bad the Soviet Union Film Institute will be paid to them. So they do not have to worry about financial issues, just from an artistic point of view to create.

In Soyuzmultfilm long history, it is not only the traditional fairy tale from the Soviet Union for inspiration, but also from European and American children's animation to find themes and inspiration. By changing the hero's image and give it easy for children to understand the name of the Soviet Union and other processing, the animation can be accepted for the Soviet Union, which is why many Western anime are the reason the Russian version. For example, the Russian version of "Winnie the Pooh" is a fat Xiaohei Xiong, its unique drink tea in Russia, the Russian fairy tale that is reminiscent of characters. Similarly, "The Adventures of Tom and Jerry" has given the Russian animation "Rabbit, wait and see! "The inspiration, the story of the wolf and the battered bird chubby bunny, is a replica of Tom and Jerry.

Soyuzmultfilm the golden age is over. Since the Soviet Union, about 90 percent of the company's employees to leave the government no longer give it financial support, market competition Soyuzmultfilm company near bankruptcy. The company head Vasily Shilnikov said: "Russia has a lot of family animation companies, there are many excellent artists for their work in the company funds are sorely needed, must find innovative ideas right." In an interview with "Russian Izvestia" of the interview He also said that in order to modernize the company, the next eight years, the company needs nearly $ 10 million capital injection. "I hope the Russian government to give us support." He said. It is reported that, Soyuzmultfilm's current problems, has attracted the attention of Russian Prime Minister. During a government meeting, Putin said the company will arrange the issue of Soyuzmultfilm, and consider an exemption to the company's debt.