''Babay'' ( uk, Бабай is a Ukrainian
animation
Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...
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fantasy film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction f ...
shot by Maryna Medvyd at the Ukranimafilm studio. The film tells the story of a beautiful girl who was searching for her parents, who were kidnapped by the
Babai. The film premiered in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
on December 18, 2014. It was considered to be the first Ukrainian full-length animated film that was widely released in Ukraine.
Plot
The old storyteller tells the children a story about the Alkonost bird, which once every hundred years lays an egg that fulfills any wish of its owner. The egg goes to whoever wins the race, in which they participate: the Witch, who wants a daughter, the Serpent Horynich, who wants a body for each of his heads, and Vii, who wants a pile of diamonds. But suddenly the egg is stolen by Babai.
The enraged Witch sends the Devil, who is in love with her, to take away the egg, but he is caught by the Babai. A fight ensues between them, during which the egg falls into the well. Babai orders the Devil to find him.
Meanwhile, the egg ends up in the grandparents' house and after some time a baby hatches from it, which grows to a teenage girl in a week. She is called Svetlanka-Zoryanka. Babay takes them with him to his hiding place. After learning what happened, Svitlanka-Zoryanka sets out to find her parents. Desperate Cat decides to go on a journey with Svetlanka-Zoryanka, during which they meet Snake Horynich, who obstructs their way until they solve his riddles.
The old storyteller, having finished his story, transforms into Babai and scares all the children.
Cast
The following actors joined for voiceover for cinema distribution in Ukraine:
* Rada Belova — Svitlanka-Zoryanka
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Irma Vitovska
Irma Hryhorivna Vitovska ( uk, Ірма Григорівна Вітовська; born December 30, 1974) is a Ukrainian theater and film actress, producer and public figure, Honored Artist of Ukraine (2016). She has worked at the Kiev Academic Yo ...
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Vedmak
In Slavic mythology, a vidmak
( be, вядзьмак, вядзьмар;
bg, вещер;
hr, vještac;
cz, vědmák;
mk, вештер;
pl, wiedźmak;
russian: ведьмак;
sr, вештац;
uk, відьмак)
is a warlock or male witch ...
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Ostap Stupka -
Chort
A chort (Russian: чёрт, Belarusian and Ukrainian: чорт, Serbo-Croatian ''čort'' or ''črt'', Polish: ''czort'' and ''czart'', Czech and Slovak: ''čert'', Slovene: ''črt'') is an anthropomorphic malign spirit or demon in Slavic folk ...
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Olesya Chichelnytska -
Alkonost
The Alkonost is a legendary woman-headed bird in Slavic folklore. Alkonost is more likely an individual character, as was noted in some legends about this bird.
Folklore
The name of the Alkonost came from a Greek demigoddess whose name was ...
, twin girls, horrors
* Kateryna Butska - Big boy
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Andriy Fedinchyk - Misha
* Evgeny Pashin - Grandfather
* Olga Radchuk - Grandma, Goat
* Olena Blinnikova - Kura
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Myroslav Kuvaldin - Cat
* Borys Georgievsky — Kazkar,
Babai
* Volodymyr Moiseyenko —
Zmiy Horynich (1st and 2nd heads)
* Volodymyr Danilets — Zmiy Horynich (3rd head)
* Andriy Sereda - Viy, the carrier
References
External links
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2014 comedy films
Ukrainian fantasy films
Ukrainian comedy films
Ukrainian-language films