Investigation Held by Kolobki

Investigation held by Kolobki
Directed by	Igor Kovalyov Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Produced by	Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Written by	Eduard Uspensky
Starring	voice cast only
Music by	Yuri Chernavskiy
Cinematography	Iosif Golomb
Distributed by	Soyuztelefilm Studio Ekran
Release dates	1986-1987
Running time	20 min 35 sec
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Investigation held by Kolobki (Russian: Следствие ведут Колобки, translit. Sledstvie vedut kolobki) is a 1986-1987 Soviet animation by Aleksander Tatarskiy in four episodes.

Episodes 1 and 2 were made by Soyuztelefilm in 1986, 3 and 4 by T/O Ekran in 1987.

Later the characters (Brothers Pilots) of this animation were heavily used by Tatarskiy's Pilot TV, in particular for the series Attic Fruttis and Academy of own Arrors.

The name of this animation film is a pun of a popular Soviet TV series Investigation Held by ZnaToKi.

Plot summary

Foreign citizen Karbofos (allusion on Karabas Barabas) steals a rare species of striped elephant from a city zoo. Famous Kolobki brothers tackle the investigation.

In a souvenir shop, Karbofos obtains a certificate confirming that he had bought a porcelain elephant. Using this certificate he tries to get on a plane.

Luckily, the ingenious Kolobki arrive just in time to lure the elephant away with cod-liver oil and shoot Karbofos down with a balloon gun.

Voice cast

• Leonid Bronevoy as Boss (in parts 1 and 2)
• Michael Evdokimov as Boss (in parts 3 and 4)
• Aleksey Ptitsin
• S. Fedosov

Quotes

• — Oh, Boss, I can see you!
  — Analogously!
• I don't understand nothing.
• Either something has happened, or one of these two possibilities.
• Meet me at N o'clock!
  — Analogously! (There weren't the hour arrow on clock, he said that they could meet at N:00, where N is the Russian word tail and'd be any hour between 11 to 19 (like teenager)

External links

• Investigation Held by Kolobki at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Sledstviye vedut kolobki at Animator.ru: [1], [2], [3]