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The Heron and the Crane

1974 animated film by Yuri Norstein
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The Heron and the Crane

Summary

The Heron and the Crane is an animated short film[1]. It draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (animated_short_film category, ranking #172 of 1,467).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Heron and the Crane's instance of is recorded as animated short film[3].
  • The Heron and the Crane's director is recorded as Yuri Norstein[4].
  • The Heron and the Crane's screenwriter is recorded as Roman Kachanov[5].
  • The Heron and the Crane's screenwriter is recorded as Yuri Norstein[6].
  • The Heron and the Crane's composer is recorded as Mikhail Meerovich[7].
  • The Heron and the Crane's producer is recorded as Natan Bitman[8].
  • The Heron and the Crane's production company is recorded as Soyuzmultfilm[9].
  • The Heron and the Crane's director of photography is recorded as Aleksandr Zhukovsky[10].
  • The Heron and the Crane's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0071608[11].
  • The Heron and the Crane's original language of film or TV show is recorded as Russian[12].
  • The Heron and the Crane's color is recorded as color[13].
  • The Heron and the Crane's FilmAffinity film ID is recorded as 424164[14].
  • The Heron and the Crane's country of origin is recorded as Soviet Union[15].
  • The Heron and the Crane's publication date is recorded as +1974-01-01T00:00:00Z[16].
  • The Heron and the Crane's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04g16lz[17].
  • The Heron and the Crane's voice actor is recorded as Innokenty Smoktunovsky[18].
  • The Heron and the Crane's film editor is recorded as Nadezhda Treshchyova[19].
  • The Heron and the Crane's title is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Цапля и журавль'}[20].
  • The Heron and the Crane's Animator.ru film ID is recorded as 2670[21].
  • The Heron and the Crane's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+10'}[22].
  • The Heron and the Crane's fabrication method is recorded as traditional animation[23].
  • The Heron and the Crane's fabrication method is recorded as cutout animation[24].
  • The Heron and the Crane's Swedish Film Database ID is recorded as 19032[25].
  • The Heron and the Crane's Elonet movie ID is recorded as 655302[26].
  • The Heron and the Crane's ČSFD film ID is recorded as 132669[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Heron and the Crane's producer is recorded as Natan Bitman[8]. Its director is recorded as Yuri Norstein[4]. Screenwriters include Roman Kachanov[5] and Yuri Norstein[6].

Publication

The Heron and the Crane's publication date is recorded as +1974-01-01T00:00:00Z[16]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as Russian[12].

Why It Matters

The Heron and the Crane draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (animated_short_film category, ranking #172 of 1,467).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Innokenty Smoktunovsky Yuri Norstein

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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