Putin supported the idea of ​​creating a Russian animation center

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin supported the idea of ​​creating a Russian animation center, responding to the FSUE "United State Films" in tough expressions, which receives fees for Soviet cartoons and "does not share with animators," RIA Novosti reports. “To work out the question of the advisability of creating a center of Russian animation. I think that this is a very good offer, timely, and maybe even with a delay,” Putin said, ending with multipliers. “You are robbed, and you are silent,” Putin told the multipliers.

He did not rule out that the animation center can be created on the basis of Soyuzmultfilm. "I believe that for this it is necessary to create a special working group, and slowly, calmly, in the working mode, to see the sources of financing - they can be partially budgetary, can partially send the prime minister in the working mode.

He also stated that the financing of the animation in 2011 will be increased by 500 million rubles. In total, next year, Putin promised to allocate 1.5 billion rubles for animated and children's cinema. "The figure was made here that we need more than 700 millions. This year we will provide additional volumes of 500 million rubles. Next year we will provide for animated and children's cinema at least one and a half billion rubles," the prime minister said.

FSUE "United State Films" Putin considers it necessary to abolish, and to convey its functions to the State Film Fund. "After discussing the situation related to the FSUE" United State Films ", it is proposed to carry out the necessary procedures to eliminate this enterprise and transfer all rights to use audio and video products by the State Film Fund," Putin said, ending with a meeting.

In early June, a group of animators turned to President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin with a letter, in which she expressed concern about the state of the largest Russian multiplier studio. The state should be engaged in financing the oldest and one of the best animated studios "Soyuzmultfilm", the state should be engaged in leading Russian animators, including Leonid Schwartzman, Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Eduard Nazarov and Yuri Norshtein.

In his appeal, which refers to the loss of the studio of "their financial, administrative and territorial independence" and the distress of animation in Russia, the animators called for the studio for state control and provide it with full state financial support. "State support for the state studio of animated films should become a national project," the letter says. According to the animators, to restore the “previous power”, it is necessary ”irrevocable financing in the amount of 250-300 million rubles for eight years.”

In addition, the letter raised the problem of training animators. The lack of funding has led to the fact that the system of training artists does not operate, and "this puts the further existence of the industry." The animators called for eight years to create state courses of artists - multipliers, scriptwriters, directors, with a full -fledged scholarship and subsequent employment, with mandatory work on Soyuzmultfilm for at least 8 to 10 years. "

A separate point of the letter was the request to restore the corps of professional editors with a higher literary education. “Only this can help develop a promising creative plan,” the animators write. The animators also proposed to hold a special meeting of the Film Development Fund under the government with the participation of animators dedicated to the problems of the formation and production of animation.

At the end of the letter, the authors of the application write that they have no illusions about the appeal and they perfectly understand "what schemes such appeals end."

“However, we must not forget that we are talking about children, the education of future citizens of Russia. Heroes of Soviet cartoons in our country have become national wealth. Therefore, we want to hope that the president and government will react to the revival of the Soyuzmultfilm state studio, as in the case of public importance,” the leading Russian artists, authors of the best domestic cartoons write in circulation.

The largest studio of the animated films "Soyuzmultfilm" was formed in 1936 by order of the Main Directorate of Film Office. In the 1970s, an average of about 30 films per year was produced at Soyuzmultfilm, it was considered the largest animation studio in Europe, but by the mid-1980s films were sharply reduced. During the years of perestroika, the studio begins to search for ways to get out of the economic crisis caused by underfunding, and in 1989 it becomes a rental enterprise, concluding a lease for 10 years. After the various crisis transformations of the enterprise in the 1990s in 2003, the film studio was separated from its collection: two separate enterprises appeared - the film fund of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio and the Soyuzmultfilm film studio.

According to the decisions adopted by the country's leadership, the building on the Dolgorukovskaya Street in Moscow, which is rebuilt for the needs of the studio with the Orthodox Church, and adjacent the territory, in which, in particular, the cemetery, should be returned to the Russian Orthodox Church should be returned. The government has repeatedly turned to both the studio and artists of art and culture to resolve this issue. However, despite the fact that both currently existing studios are in state property, no decisions that would revive the Soyuzmultfilm studio have been made.

At the end of 2008, it was announced that the film fund of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio will be transferred to the film Funds of a number of state film studios. The association was completed by June 1, 2010: as a result of the reorganization of the film funds of the five film studios (Lenfilm, Central -Science, children's and youth films named after M. Gorky, the Sverdlovsk film studio and the Diafilm studio) were attached to the film fund of the Soyuzmultfilm film Fund, renamed the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Enterprise. "United state film collection."

Since 2006, the studio has been the only copyright holder of the largest collection of Soviet and Russian animations in all countries of the world. Currently, there are four to five films a year at Soyuzmultfilm.

Grani-TV: Yuri Norshtein