# Blue Puppy > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Blue_Puppy > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Blue_Puppy.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Puppy > Source revision: 1331974722 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|1976 Soviet film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{refimprove|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox film | name = Blue Puppy | image = One still frame from the Blue Puppy animation film - a Puppy and a Black Cat.jpg | caption = The Blue Puppy and the Black Cat | director = [Yefim Gamburg](/source/Yefim_Gamburg) | producer = | writer = [Yuri Entin](/source/Yuri_Entin) | narrator = | starring = [Mikhail Boyarsky](/source/Mikhail_Boyarsky)
[Alisa Freindlich](/source/Alisa_Freindlich)
[Alexander Gradsky](/source/Alexander_Gradsky)
[Andrei Mironov](/source/Andrei_Mironov_(actor)) | music = [Gennady Gladkov](/source/Gennady_Gladkov) | cinematography = [Mikhail Druyan](/source/Mikhail_Druyan) | editing = | distributor = [Soyuzmultfilm](/source/Soyuzmultfilm) | released = {{Film date|1976|11|28|df=y}} | runtime = 19 minutes | country = [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) | language = Russian
English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Blue Puppy''''' ({{langx|ru|Голубой щенок}}, [translit.](/source/Transliteration) ''Goluboy shchenok'', alternative translations - Pale Blue Puppy/Slate puppy) is a 1976 [Soviet animated film](/source/Soviet_animation). The lyrics and screenplay were written by [Yuri Entin](/source/Yuri_Entin), loosely based on the tale by Hungarian writer {{ill|Gyula Urban|hu|Urbán Gyula}}. The film was unique in utilizing a non-traditional [animation](/source/animation) technique where spots of colorful [India ink](/source/India_ink) were used to form the characters. This gave a great deal of plasticity to the [animated character](/source/animated_character)s. For example, the Black Cat would vanish from the foreground only to reappear immediately in the back, or the evil Pirate would transform into a [thundercloud](/source/thundercloud) by inflating himself with his own malice. == Plot == A puppy, who is strangely born with a coat that is a shade of light blue, is rejected by all. Nobody wants to play with him or to be his friend. Even the Grey Dogs avoid him. The [Black Cat](/source/Black_cat), a dodger and a faker, is the only one that feigns interest. Unexpectedly, the Pirate attacks the island and using the Black Cat, kidnaps the Blue Puppy. Along comes the Good Sailor, who always helps ones in trouble and does good things. As the Sailor sails the sea, the Black Cat tells him about the abduction of the Puppy. The Sailor decides to rescue the puppy and begins chasing the Pirate; the Pirate eventually attacks the Seaman with a [sawfish](/source/sawfish) which sinks the Sailor's ship. The Pirate ties the Seaman and the Puppy together with shackles. The Pirate and the Black Cat are celebrating their victory and sing a song about their spurious friendship. The Pirate, however, gets drunk to the point of unconsciousness, allowing the Puppy to free both himself and the Sailor. After that, the Seaman confronts and defeats the Pirate. He and the Puppy return to the island as heroes. Now, nobody tries to avoid the Puppy. More importantly, however, the Puppy now has a real friend. The moral of the story is that it is not so awful to be different from others, as long as one has friends, and the respect of one's peers. == Publications == Since its inception, the tale was published many times by ''[Melody](/source/Melodiya)'' on vinyl [records](/source/Gramophone_record) and, later, on a [CD](/source/CD). The [soundtrack](/source/soundtrack) includes not only the film songs, but also the plot narration in rhyme. Some singles from the soundtrack are included in special children audio-collections. At the end of the 1990s, the tale was reborn on the [theater](/source/theater) [stage](/source/stage_(theatre)). Plays loosely based on the film were staged at the [St. Petersburg Marionette Theater](/source/St._Petersburg_Marionette_Theater) and at the [Moscow Chamber Music Puppet Theater](/source/Moscow_Chamber_Music_Puppet_Theater). A musical version has also appeared at a [Krasnoyarsk](/source/Krasnoyarsk) night club. A computer video-game ''Birthday of the Blue Puppy'' was released by [Fargus](/source/Fargus). == Ambiguous meaning of the tale == In the early 1990s, Yuri Entin was under constant pressure over his film. This is because the word ''goluboy'' (''light blue'') is a modern Russian slang term for [gay](/source/gay). This misconception was helped along by some of the quotes from the songs in the movie, for example, when the Blue Puppy is teased by the other dogs: "You are blue! You are blue! We don't want to play with you!" or in the subsequent song by the Puppy, which has the line, "I am hurt by an evil fate, oh, why am I blue?" However, the additional connotation to the Russian word "blue" is a recent phenomenon, and writer [Yuri Entin](/source/Yuri_Entin) has pointed out that he never thought of such an association in 1976, when the film was made. == Voice cast == * [Mikhail Boyarsky](/source/Mikhail_Boyarsky) as a Pirate * [Alisa Freindlich](/source/Alisa_Freindlich) as Blue Puppy * [Alexander Gradsky](/source/Alexander_Gradsky) as a Sailor and the Sawfish * [Andrei Mironov](/source/Andrei_Mironov_(actor)) as a Black Cat == External links == *{{IMDb title|0212969}} *[http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2707 ''Blue Puppy''] at [Animator.ru](/source/Animator.ru) {{Yefim Gamburg}} Category:1976 films Category:1976 animated short films Category:Films scored by Gennady Gladkov Category:Films directed by Yefim Gamburg Category:Soyuzmultfilm films Category:Soviet animated short films Category:Soviet musical-animated films Category:Animated films about cats Category:Animated films about dogs Category:Russian-language short films Category:Russian-language musical films --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Blue Puppy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Puppy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Puppy?action=history)). 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