"Snegovik-pochtovik" is a Soviet animated short film from 1955, so this one is already over 60 years old and it is one work from the Eastern equivalent to the Golden Age of Animation brought upon us by Warner Bros. and Disney back then. The names Amalrik and Suteev you will find attached to many other Soviet cartoons from back then and the number of views here tells me that this is not one of the most or least known ones. Anyway, it recently got a bit of a boost because it deals with the subject of winter/Christmas and this is one you don't see as often as you would think in Soviet animation. But the animals are there, the talking animals, who are not as humanized as they were in the USA back then, and those were really frequent in Soviet animation. Still I felt that here we have almost too many characters to be honest. The elaboration on each of these left me pretty unimpressed, it is all quantity over quality. And I also felt that this one looks a lot more American than most other Soviet cartoons from that era where you immediately see which country they were from. This one here not so much. It runs for a bit under 20 minutes and well I must say I am glad it was this short as neither characters nor story never really had me glued to the screen. Even now during the months when the film is set I found this to be an underwhelming watch all in all. I have seen many better Soviet cartoons from back in the day and the moral is also a bit unimpressive here. My suggestion is to skip it.
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