Kurlyandsky A. "Return of the Prodigal Parrot"

Parrot Kesha

The main character of the cartoon.

Egocentric, requiring increased attention, capricious and wayward. In all habits and external color, it most of all resembles a parrot of the macaw family.

The plumage is bright. Raspberry head. There are large white circles around the eyes. Lush green tuft. On the neck is a white "collar" resembling a jabot. The wings are green at the base, with a pink stripe. The purple feathers at the ends serve as fingers in many cases. The body is pink. Paws are yellow, with three fingers (two in front, one behind). The tail consists of three green feathers with pink tips.

Often wears clothes:

• In the first issue, only at the very beginning: he sits in a chair in sneakers.
• In the second issue, in the new owner's apartment, he wears a blue Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
• At the beginning of the third issue, he appears in Vovka's white T-shirt. Then he changes into striped shorts with suspenders, a peaked cap and beach goggles. Further, in several episodes, he walks in Vasily's sweatshirt and his cap.

Favorite hobby: watching TV movies and programs. Judging by the vocabulary, absolutely different topics - from criminal chronicles to lyrical concert programs.

Speech is sometimes incoherent, reminiscent of a set of quotes from watched programs and heard songs.

Vovka

Kesha's owner.

Boy of school age. Constantly learning lessons. Often sick.

In the first two issues of the cartoon, he is dressed in a yellow turtleneck and a blue school uniform. In the third issue, he appears in the beginning in a yellow T-shirt, at the end in a blue sweatshirt.

Patient with a capricious parrot. Takes care of him, worries. In every possible way tries to show Kesha his love. He is calm about Kesha's antics, easily forgives them and takes Kesha back every time.

Other characters

• Fat red cat- lazy, imposing, swaggering, with arrogance. Lives with wealthy owners. Life Principle: "Rested - in! Sour cream - in! Fish - in!
• Crow- infantile, phlegmatic. Forced to constantly poking around in the garbage in search of food. Everything is optimistic. Favorite phrase: "Awesome! Just lovely!”
• Puppy- first appears in the first issue, after the return of Kesha. Does not play a key role in the cartoon. Sublimates Vovka's love for the parrot.

Plot

Continuation of the series

In the 2000s, after the death of V. Karavaev, A. Kurlyandsky made an attempt to reanimate the main character of the series. Work is underway with the director A. Davydov. The rest of the creative composition changes almost completely.

All cartoons have original titles. Only the phrase "Kesha's parrot" remains the key.

In 2002, the cartoon "Morning of Kesha's Parrot" was released. Then other series followed: "The New Adventures of Kesha's Parrot" in 2005, "The Kidnapping of Kesha's Parrot", "Kesha's Parrot and the Beast" in 2006.

The cartoons were released at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio.

Valentin Karavaev once saw a parrot in winter, which, obviously, flew out through the window and now did not know how to return. Began to think: why flew out? Offended, quarreled with the boy. Why? Probably, he behaved impudently, mimicked everyone ... And gradually the image of a kind of bird Khlestakov arose - a talker, a dreamer, a braggart.

Reviews

Critics unanimously admit that Kesha is not a simple cartoon character. His character is detailed and initially conceived in such a way as to win the sympathy of the audience. At the same time, the cartoon is more loved and appreciated by adults than by children.

Kurlyandsky is called "a man of amazing imagination", and the cartoon "Return of the Prodigal Parrot" is a creation "with ageless Soviet humor and irony", a film that "worthy of being reviewed more than a dozen times".

• Genre: Children's
• Publisher: Akella
• Russian language

System requirements: Windows XP SP2 (pyc), Pentium III 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB DirectX 9-compatible 3D video card (GeForce 4 or higher, except for integrated video cards and MX-series), DirectX 9-compatible sound card, 800 MB free hard disk space, 24x CD-ROM, DiretcX 9.0c keyboard, mouse.

Parrot Kesha - mathematician

Parrot Kesha goes to a tropical island to have a good rest and find new friends.

• Developer Studio "Sail"
• Publisher Akella
• For children from 6 to 12 years old

System requirements: Operating system Windows XP SP2 Processor Pentium III 1 GHz RAM 512 MB RAM Video DirectX 9-compatible. 3D w.c. ur. GeForce 4 and above Sound DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card CD-ROM drive Control keyboard, mouse

Parrot Kesha learns the alphabet

• Plot: A parrot goes to a tropical island, meets natives and learns the alphabet.

• The game is addressed to children 6-7 years old
• Developer: Parus
• Publisher: Akella
• Game released: 08/27/2008
• Genre: Family, For Kids

System requirements: P3-1.0, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB 3D Card

Kesha in the world of fairy tales

• Plot: Kesha took a book with fairy tales to read.

• Release year: 2006
• Style - Children's quest.
• Publisher: Akella
• Developer: Origames Studio
• Interface language: Russian.

System requirements: Win 98/2000/ME/XP (rus); Pentium III 500 MHz; 128 MB RAM; 32 MB DirectX8 compatible 3D graphics card; DirectX-compatible sound card; 800 MB hard disk space; CD-ROM 24x; Keyboard; Mouse.

Parrot Kesha. Freedom for parrots!

• Issue - 2006
• Style - Children's quest.
• Publisher: Akella
• Developer: Origames Studio
• Interface language: Russian.
• The task is to save Brazilian parrots from complete extinction.

Minimum system requirements: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP; Pentium III 500MHz; 128 MB RAM; 32 MB DirectX8 compatible 3D video card; DirectX-compatible sound card; 800 MB. hard disk space; 24x CD-ROM; Keyboard; Mouse.

Parrot Kesha: Have you been to Tahiti?

• Plot: Together with the pot-bellied cat Vasily, the parrot set off on a journey.

• Genres: Arcade
• Interface Language: Russian
• Release year: 2006
• Developer: Burut CT
• Publisher in Russia: Akella

Minimum System Requirements: System: Win 98/2000/ME/XP Processor: Pentium III 500 MHz Memory: 128 MB RAM Video Card: 32 MB DirectX 9 compatible 3D graphics card Audio Card: DirectX compatible sound card Hard Drive: 800 MB of free hard disk space

Notes

Nika Award for Best Animated Film
1987-2000	Return of the Prodigal Parrot (1987) · Breakfast on the Grass (1988) Actor (1989) Slap in the face (1990) Gray Wolf & Little Red Riding Hood (1991) · Bolero. Enhanced Spirituality Film (1992) · Origin of Species (1993) · The Barber of Seville (1994) · Lion with a gray beard (1995) · The Pilot Brothers Make Pasta for Breakfast (1996) · Long Journey (1997) · Chucha (1998) Pharaoh (1999) Adagio (2000)
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Parrot Kesha is a special hero! Just like "a man in his prime" or a wolf in "Just you wait!" he has a very absurd and even disgusting character. Kesha is independent, unrequited and selfish to the limit, in general, the hero is what you need!

Parrot Kesha, who was so fond of both the small and the big audience, was once invented by screenwriter Alexander Kurlyandsky and director Valentin Karavaev, but he owes his graphic embodiment to Anatoly Savchenko (by the way, Carlson is also his cartoon brainchild).

Throughout the series, today there are eight of them, Kesha either runs away from his friend Vovka, then returns again. The adventures of an independent and funny parrot are entertaining and funny, and the words and expressions that were put into his mouth and voiced by Gennady Khazanov have long become winged.

The idea for the cartoon came about quite by accident. Once at the studio, Valentin Karavaev suggested that Kurlyandsky make a simple children's cartoon and told a story about a parrot, which he saw on the street in winter. The feathered one flew away from the house, but did not lose his head and wormed his way into a flock of sparrows.

Animators began to think up a story: why did he fly out of the apartment? Why didn't he return? How did he live? No one expected Kesha's parrot to become so popular.

As a result, 3 series of the cartoon "" were released. 14 years later, the Soyuzmultfilm studio filmed Kesha's Parrot Morning, followed by four more stories, four funny adventures. Everything can be viewed online.

The main characters in cartoons about Kesha

• Kesha- a parrot, the main character of the film with a difficult character and bad habits. Periodically wears clothes. Favorite hobby: watching movies and TV shows.

• Vovka- A boy of school age, the owner of Kesha. Somewhat boring, constantly learning lessons, patient with a capricious pet, take care of him and always forgives.

• Ginger cat- a very lazy creature that lives with rich owners in the attic. The cat is happy with everything in life. The attitude towards Kesha is ambiguous: sometimes he admires the bird, and sometimes vice versa.

• Crow Clara - a phlegmatic, infantile bird that is constantly poking around in the garbage in search of food and shiny trinkets. An optimist by nature, she respects Kesha and constantly repeats "Lovely!".

• Kolya- a gray sparrow, understands Kesha like no other. His name is not mentioned in the cartoon. In winter, he took pity on the parrot and sheltered it under his hat.

Also among the characters can be noted an evil boy from a wealthy family who bought Kesha and forced him to do all the work. In the third issue, the parrot meets Vasily, a good-natured villager from the Bright Way state farm. And in the new issues there will be a district police officer Elkin, a fair guardian of order.

The economic crisis of the 90s postponed the release of the 4th series of the cartoon, although the script had already been written. Kurlyandsky negotiated with colleagues from Germany who were interested in creating an animated series about the parrot Kesha, but the project was never completed.

The plot of the cartoon is used in their practice by psychologists when it is necessary to resolve a similar conflict situation with a teenager.

The cartoon "Return of the Prodigal Parrot" has a book sequel. Alexander Kurlyandsky wrote three stories: “Have you been to Tahiti?”, “And we are well fed here!”, “Charming!”.

The logo with the image of Kesha has long become commercial, it is promoted by both copyright holders and pirates. With the famous parrot, they create computer games, coloring books and much more.

Cartoon catchphrases

• And Vovka loved me so much ... He carried me right in his arms ...
• Tahiti, Tahiti ... We have not been to any Tahiti - we are well fed here.
• Rested - in! Sour cream - in! Fish - in!
• Svo-bo-du in-po-ga-yam!
• Lovely, lovely!
• Farewell forever, our meeting was a mistake!
• Oh you! Life is not sniffed! And I am a whole summer, a whole summer ... In the morning - mowing, in the evening - milk. Now the cow will grow, then the cherry has risen, then the beets will be scorched. What if it rains during drying? Plow like a tractor.
• Oh, you dullness! It's Bubble Gum!
• What am I, I'm nothing. He doesn't hear it.
• Goodbye, my love, goodbye...
• - We've arrived! Kolkhoz "Svetlyi Path!"

The Return of the Prodigal Parrot is a famous cartoon about the charismatic parrot Kesha, which has become a recognized classic of Soviet animation and a treasure trove of unforgettable quotes.

Kesha was created by the writer Alexander Kurlyandsky, the director-animator Valentin Karavaev and the artist-animator Anatoly Savchenko, and the voice actor Gennady Khazanov gave the final and unique charm to the character. In 1984 - 1988, three series of cartoons about a parrot were released, built on the same plot basis: Kesha runs away from home, gets into trouble and, as a result, disappointed and ashamed, returns to his home. After a long break, in the 2000s, Soyuzmultfilm released several more episodes about the prodigal parrot, but they were created by a different creative team and, unfortunately, could not reproduce the success of the first three stories.

Judging by the interesting metaphors of The Return of the Prodigal Parrot, although the cartoon is presented as a children's cartoon, it is much more valuable for an adult audience.

This is, in a good way, an adult cartoon.

Kaleidoscopic thinking(Kesha's incoherent speeches made up of scraps of TV and radio phrases), theme of Motherland and Western expansion(“Oh, you, dullness! This is bubble gum! The owner brought it. From this very one, well, how is it ... - Tahiti? - Just about"), stereotypes of a successful life(“I live well, swim in the pool, drink juice, orangeade ... Yes, yes - right without leaving the pool”), cultural defection(“According to your numerous requests, the Weiner brothers will perform the song Modern Talking!”) – subtly and satirically in the children's cartoon, themes are presented, obviously appealing to adult understanding.

Surprisingly, the funny cartoon also contains a serious central motive - the betrayal of the native with its unhappy consequences. In all three episodes, the prodigal Kesha does not want to support his owner and friend Vovka: turn down the volume of the TV when he is preparing for the test, take care of a sick boy during the holidays, take it easy on the owner’s impossibility to dress him, the poor, in fashionable jeans, which are the fat neighbor's cat.

Dragged away from his home by erroneous dreams of a successful life, Kesha hopes for the triumph of his not very distant, almost consumer interests, but this is not even close. Having betrayed his native home, the parrot finds himself in an unenviable fate: he ends up in the garbage heap, where he gives concerts for the stupid local audience for food, sells himself to a pro-Western domestic tyrant for free, and disgraces his honor at the Bright Way state farm until he wishes to commit suicide.

Conclusion

Parrot Kesha, although charming and artistic, is essentially an anti-hero, whose selfish, eccentric behavior contradicts serious matters (the study of an exemplary Vovka, the activities of a state farm), which is why the prodigal parrot has to reconsider its views over and over again.

The cartoon "Return of the Prodigal Parrot", in general, is an example of positive and bright patriotic art, where the traitor is depicted as ridiculous, stupid and humiliated, but peacefully called to return to the starting point for re-education.

The popular eighties animated trilogy Return of the Prodigal Parrot features funny stories about a wayward parrot named Kesha.

The first part, created at the dawn of perestroika in 1984, made a splash. Soviet animation has not yet known such cartoons - comedic, multifaceted, with an actual parodic socio-political note: a capricious parrot, a fugitive and a returnee.

Formally aimed at a children's audience, The Return was wildly popular with the older generation. The cartoon was taken apart for quotes. The notorious animation "for adults" - drawn "Wicks", denouncing drunkenness, then parasitism - faded next to "Return of the Prodigal Parrot". The labor morality that set the teeth on edge lost out to the subtext, the existence of which the creators hardly guessed - director Valentin Alexandrovich Karavaev and screenwriter Alexander Efimovich Kurlyandsky.

But why didn't you think of it? If Karavaev and Kurlyandsky had limited themselves to one issue of The Return, then one could speak of unintentional luck and stray subtext. But over the course of several years, two more parts were created by these same people, so consistent and deep that it is not necessary to speak of “accidents”.

Kurlyandsky and Karavaev certainly understood how close the little capricious parrot was to the Soviet audience, how recognizable it was. After all, it was the image, harmoniously voiced by Gennady Khazanov, and the dramaturgy that ensured the success of the cartoon, and not the hackneyed visual technique (the boy Vovka, the owner of Kesha's parrot, is like two drops like the Kid from Carlson).

Yuri Norshtein was an innovator, back in 1975 he released the philosophical "Hedgehog in the Fog". Karavaev and Kurlyandsky were able to rise to the level of ideology.

By 1984, the censorship apparatus of the Soviet Union was already weakened, but not so much as to overlook how ambiguous The Return was. But the fact of the matter is that this second meaning suited the official ideology. The cartoon wittily branded the eternal fifth column - the dissident community and its national flavor.

Therefore, the clearly provocative title "Return of the Prodigal ..." was left. The parodic context immediately began to work on the "image".

From the first glance at Kesha, it became clear that the nationality of the parrot was "biblical": the eastern type - that's what the "parrot" is for, round bulging eyes, a Semitic nose-beak. Parrots are known to be long-lived. Kesha was supposed to be perceived as Ahasuerus, a kind of eternal Parrot.

Kesha's speech is a media "organ", a brainless warehouse of television and radio quotes for all occasions. Kesha is dominated not by the mind, but by the temper. And pretty bad. The cartoon shows in every possible way that the owner of Kesha - the boy Vovka (read, power) - does not have a soul in a parrot (Jew), and Kesha is always dissatisfied with everything.

The first "flight" of the parrot parodies the so-called "internal emigration". The plot develops as follows: Vovka refuses Kesha to take "spiritual food" - the parrot watches a crime drama on TV - something like "Petrovka, 38", with chases and shooting.

The boy Vovka does not watch an empty film, but diligently does his homework. And he asks the parrot to make the sound quieter. The parrot perceives these requests as an infringement of its rights and freedoms. The switched off TV puts an end to the relationship between Vovka and Kesha. The parrot jumps from the balcony. This blatant simulation of suicide is meant to highlight the gap. Vovka personifies the state and power, with which Kesha can no longer have any relationship. He kind of died for them.

At first, the clownish flight scares Kesha. He understands that he was Vovka's favorite. In fact, his act is nothing more than hysterical acting. But it's impossible to return home. Kesha is lost and cannot find his window.

The dissident parrot is saved by the public, the inhabitants of the yard: a fat cat, a crow, sparrows. Kesha "acts" - reproduces all the verbal garbage that has settled in his head after listening to "voices". This is ridiculous, inside-out information that amuses both the cat and the crow.

“I’m flying to Tahiti somehow ... Have you been to Tahiti?” - this is how Kesha begins his speeches. "Tahiti" should sound like "the promised land" - the historical homeland of Keshi, an exotic place.

A fat cat is a sybarite, a major, a pet of power, a generic enemy of all "birds", and at the same time - completely safe due to its satiety and laziness. Dissident gatherings have always known such types - children of the party or scientific elite, sleek and generous pseudo-rebels for the time being.

Crow is a bohemian, a typical intellectual, a lively cesspool with an inexhaustible reserve of optimism, like that of former blockade survivors. She has the same response to all of Kesha's passages: "Just lovely!"

When the "cold" comes (the political thaw is over), the cat delivers its merciless but fair sentence to Kesha: "We were not in Tahiti, we are well fed here." Hard times are coming for the internal emigrant.

With Kesha, only sparrows remain - an outbred intellectual, the last faithful listener. Perhaps the “bible” brings the parrot and the sparrow together, because the sparrow in Rus' is a well-established image of a Jew.

A chilled couple roams the balconies in search of food. Kesha notices Vovka in one of the windows. The prodigal parrot happily returns home, immediately forgetting about the hungry sparrow friend.

While Kesha was dissident, Vovka got a puppy (the future dog of the regime), whose presence the parrot would not have tolerated before. Now Kesha is temporarily re-educated by the street, pacified. He is even ready to share the place of the favorite with a lop-eared puppy. The former swagger has faded into the background, subservience prevails.

When Vovka again asks to make the TV quieter, Kesha immediately fulfills the request, pointing to the puppy: “What about me? I’m nothing… He can’t hear it!”

The dissident seems to be tamed and broken.

But there is still gunpowder in the flasks. A new rebellion and escape is brewing. Outward migration.

In the second part of The Return of the Prodigal Parrot, Kesha runs to the "West".

Return II, or "It's me, Keshechka"

The second issue of The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (1987) is about the subsequent round of dissident escape. Internal emigration evolves into external emigration.

This scenario move fully corresponded to the realities of Soviet life in the first half of the seventies, when the Soviet Union reluctantly, as if through its teeth, released the fifth column and the fifth column. A grump, a whiner, a homegrown Abram Terts-Sinyavsky ibn Kesha flees to the "West". And even if in the cartoon the "West" turns out to be conditional and symbolic, but this does not stop it from being a place of decay and the focus of vice. There, "across the ocean", in the homeland of bubblegum and jeans, life will teach Kesha a cruel emigrant lesson in the spirit of "It's me - Eddie."

Even in the first issue, the parrot is shown as a morally decomposed type - lazy, capricious, monstrously ambitious. The stage of internal emigration in the "Arbat" garbage dump additionally corrupted Kesha. Under the pressure of circumstances, of course, he returned to Vovka, that is, to the bosom of the Soviet system, but this is a temporary truce. Cash cannot be fixed. In the words of house manager Mordyukova, the dissident parrot still "secretly visits the synagogue."

The impetus for change is the notorious "elements of the sweet life", to which Kesha is internally drawn. In the morning, walking the dog, he comes to his native dump, his intellectual "kitchen", in order, as in the good old days, to give a concert to regular spectators: sparrows and crows. Everything is spoiled by a fat cat, a damned major - he appears in new jeans, with a player and chewing gum: “Grayness, this is bubble gum!”

Society is shocked by this display of luxury. About Kesh immediately forget. The garbage intelligentsia shows its superficial insides and lack of spirituality. Western things turn out to be more attractive than the creations of Kesha's spirit.

The utterly narcissistic Kesha begins to be consumed by envy. He returns home to Vovka and, although being a male creature, rolls up a scene according to the female type: “What am I wearing, in rags, like Cinderella!” Vovka, that is, the Motherland, with the words "Choose!" generously opens the closet-bins, but Kesha is not interested in the benefits of the domestic light industry. Having sobbed, Kesha cynically “files for divorce”: “Farewell, our meeting was a mistake” - and retires to those places where “luxury” is available.

If Keshin's first escape was a hysterical reaction to the ban and the parrot, albeit with a stretch, could be called a rebel, then the second "emigration" is a prudent act of the consumer. Kesha is ready to be sold for jeans, a player and bubble gum.

First of all, having got to the "West", Kesha puts himself up for auction. A spoiled parrot is inadequate in self-esteem and assigns himself a price of a thousand rubles - an exorbitant Soviet amount. Kesha forgets that he is no longer in Vovka's apartment, that he has entered the territory of market relations. Nobody needs a parrot for a thousand, and for a hundred, and even for ten rubles. Reality quickly knocks down arrogance. Only when Kesha has discounted himself to zero, is there a buyer for him.

Who is the new Keshin owner? Outwardly, this is a typical offspring of fartsy of the late eighties. He is fashionably dressed, his apartment is crammed with luxury items that are iconic for a Soviet layman - a VCR, a table on wheels, and so on.

Unlike the fair-haired Slavic Vovka, the new Boss looks like a typical pig-like Anglo-Saxon, akin to Private Ryan - a big, cruel youth. He is the Master of the "West" and the wayward feathered Jew Kesha will have a hard time with him.

The first shots of Kesha's new life in the "West" should mislead the viewer. Kesha, in a new T-shirt with Mickey Mouse, is lying on the sofa with a player, listening to Modern Talking, drinking the mysterious coca drink, watching a VCR. It seems that the new capitalist life has succeeded...

Everything falls into place during Kesha's phone call to Vovka. The parrot traditionally lies, like many of his fellow emigrants, who spent the last dollars on talking with their Motherland, lazily and complacently reported their financial achievements, their own car, color TV, Coca-Cola in the refrigerator, so that later, with new forces after lying, they would return to dirty dishes in a restaurant or driving a taxi that vomited...

Kesha is no exception: "I swim in the pool, I drink juice, orangeade, I have many friends, a car." It is also important that in the conversation he mixes the characteristic accent of a second-generation emigrant into his voice - a sophisticated coquetry on the part of the cunning Kesha. This lie to save self-love reconciles it with reality. By the way, Kesha is watching the film "The Prick with an Umbrella" on the VCR. This film was in the Soviet box office, so Kesha in the sense of "spiritual food" did not really win.

But then the Anglo-Saxon returns, the parrot hastily crumples the conversation, hangs up. It can be seen that Kesha is terribly afraid of the Owner. It soon becomes clear why. He pushes around a useless parrot, mocks, humiliates. From a favorite and a favorite, Kesha turned into a servant, a slave. Kesha whimpers: "Vovka loved me so much, he literally carried me in his arms."

Alas, capitalism close up turned out to be not so attractive. Enlightenment comes. After another humiliation, Kesha allows himself to raise his voice to the Boss. "West" shows his bestial face, the rebel immediately finds himself in a cage. Kesha only remains what to chant: "Freedom to the parrots!" Yes, to bawl the protest songs of the abandoned fatherland: “Let there always be Vovka, let there always be me!”

Coming home from prison is no longer easy. Newfound cinematic experience comes to the rescue. Kesha breaks the cage, builds an explosive device from the "western" waste. When the door is blown up, Kesha gets shell-shocked. He is surrounded by nightmare visions, demonic masks of capitalism, and he comes to his senses already in Vovka's apartment. Emigration did not pass without a trace - Kesha in bandages, damaged both physically and mentally. Kesha admits, like a Limonov hero: I felt bad, I was alone.

There were no prerequisites for the return of the parrot home. And yet - Kesha in the homeland. This moment can be perceived as the invasion of a miracle. The creators of the cartoon, of course, could devote ten seconds to an additional episode in which the Anglo-Saxon throws the half-dead Kesha into the trash, and there he is picked up by Vovka, who went out for a walk with a puppy.

The authors understood that these explanations are superfluous. Still, Kesha is a collective image of the restless Jewish intelligentsia. Yes, some part of “Kesha” that fled to the West paid the price for betrayal, but the rest received a good lesson and calmed down ... until a new escape. Now, to the people.

Return III, or "Flight to the People"

The third and final issue of the adventures of the prodigal parrot (1988) tells the story of going "to the people". Kesha decides to "Russify".

In fact, all the previous flights of Kesha are a kind of search for truth, the mythical Belovodye, promised by Tahiti. Kesha conducts his search primarily in the cultural field, namely, he consistently adjoins certain social trends.

In the first two issues, Kesha was both a dissident and a cosmopolitan. Internal emigration failed, emigration to the "West" disappointed capitalism. Born in the Union, Kesha failed to become either a giant of the spirit or a citizen of the world. But there is another way out. Somewhere nearby, literally at hand, there is another influential cultural trend - Russian, populist, saying that one does not have to go far for the truth - it is nearby, outside the city, in simplicity, in the purity of agrarian life, in unity with nature.

Events develop as follows. A fat ginger cat informs the cesspit regulars that he is leaving for the country for the summer. It is noteworthy that the cat-major for the second time acts as a trendsetter. In the previous episode, he seduced Kesha with jeans and a walkman.

Stung with envy, Kesha hurries home to demand his share of “Russianness” from Vovka, just like a character from a joke of that time - a meticulous telephone Jew who calls the society Memory: “Is it true that the Jews sold Russia, and if so, where can I get my share?..”

It is impossible to go to the village - Vovka fell ill. We see Kesha already in a new "Russian" role. Instead of a T-shirt, he is wearing a kind of woman's peasant underwear. He grumbles like an old woman at Vovka: “It’s not enough for him to get sick in winter.”

Sadly, in 1988 Vovka, that is, the Soviet Union, was already thoroughly ill. If Kesha had known that Vovka was not destined to recover, that he would last another three years, until August 1991 ...

Sad events are yet to come, while Kesha, meanwhile, packs his suitcase and leaves to live in the village, "to the roots."

No one picks up Kesha for a long time on the track. But suddenly Vasily appears on a tractor - the embodiment of a cliché from feature films about the village. In any case, this is how the city dweller Kesh represents the villager. Vasily is simple, good-natured, hospitable.

Vasily takes Kesha to the Bright Way state farm. He is polite and invariably addresses the interlocutor with “You”, while the arrogant Kesha tactlessly pokes: “I want it easily, with the people - like you! Simple guys, which we have at every turn!

Vasily returns from the museum - in this way he joined the "high". Kesha sings "Russian Field" - this is his form of merging with Russian identity.

In general, all the cultural codes that Kesha uses to find an approach to Vasily are, in fact, stereotypes and create only a comic effect. It is difficult to imagine something more ridiculous than a parrot (that is, a Jew) in the village. As it turns out later, it is also socially dangerous. From Kesha there are only problems and losses.

In the morning, Kesha wakes up in a village house, looking for breakfast, dropping pots, getting dirty in the stove, calling Vasily for help with screams. The parrot is not able to find food in the house, even if it just stands on the table.

After breakfast, Kesha goes for a walk and gets acquainted with the "household": a pig with piglets, a horse, a rooster and chickens. For a parrot, the inhabitants of the yard are the audience. And in the village, he does his usual thing, namely, he randomly reproduces the urban “culture” - in this case, a mix of Antonov, Pugacheva and a meaningless set of phrases from the “Country Hour”: “Tell me, how many tons of clover from each laying hen will be poured into incubators after threshing the threshing?”

In living creatures, "art" does not meet with support, rather bewilderment and irritation, except that the horse "neighs" over the performer himself.

Having brought himself to creative exaltation - Kesha portrays a rock and roll performer - the parrot falls into the well. Vasily, who has returned, saves him, and then lends a cap and a padded jacket to a wet parrot.

Kesha internally understands his worthlessness. In many Soviet films, the story of a clumsy neophyte is played out, who, having got into a new environment for him, breaks the situation with hard work and breaks out into drummers. Kesha is also obsessed with the idea of ​​proving his worth and usefulness: “I can, I will prove, I will show! They will know about me. They'll talk about me!"

But there is no transformation. Kesha turns out to be incapable of peasant labor. (In a good way, to work in general.) He is destructive like Chubais or Gaidar, who a few years later will demonstrate their terrible talents to the country ...

Sitting in Vasily's tractor, Kesha first smashes the buildings in the yard, and then dumps the tractor into the river. At the same time, Vasily shows miracles of tolerance - he only sighs and waves his hand doomedly.

A conscience wakes up in a parrot, more precisely, not even a conscience, but its acting surrogate, Kesha brands himself, calls himself a nonentity, a pathetic person and decides to "die like a man." (By the way, this is the first and last time the parrot declares its boyishness, because all its behavior is a rehash of an anecdotal Jewish wife, who, as you know, “everything hurts.”)

Hanging on a wire from a light bulb turns into a performance. Pigs, a horse, and Vasily himself are watching the process with curiosity. At the same time, no one is trying to stop the parrot - there is too much harm from it.

The image of Kesha is completely devoid of drama: Yesenin does not work out of a parrot. Vasily sends him home in a parcel.

The inhabitants of the dump meet the returned cat. He certainly did not go to the people, but was just a summer resident. But then Kesha appears. He is wearing a quilted jacket and a cap - he, as always, is “in character”. Snapping his whip, Kesha bursts into a tirade of distraught village prose: “Oh, you! Didn't sniff life?! And I am a whole summer, a whole summer: mowing in the morning, milking in the evening, then the cow will farrow, then the chickens rushed. And here comes the cherry! The candle has spluttered! Plow like a tractor! And if it rains during shrinkage, huh?

The first novel by Eduard Limonov.

The film "Diamond Arm", where Nonna Viktorovna Mordyukova brilliantly played the role of a house manager.

The protagonist of the film by American director Steven Spielberg "Saving Private Ryan".

The old cartoon makes people nostalgic. This also applies to the iconic "Parrot Kesha". This piece has its own little history. The writers and animators put a piece of themselves into it. Therefore, watching a cartoon is so joyful and interesting over and over again.

cartoon story line

The main character is shown to the viewer as "a hero of our time." All the actions of the cartoon "Parrot Kesha" take place in a fictional city in Russia and its outskirts. The character lives with his master Vovka, has a quick-tempered and somewhat arrogant character. As a result, Kesha's parrot often has outbursts of anger, which causes him to run away from home. Outside the dwelling, he always gets into trouble, after which he returns to Vovka with an apology. The cartoon "Parrot Kesha" makes fun of the behavior of people of the era of the 1980s and 2000s. This is done through the main character and his actions.

How the cartoon was created

It has been observed that all ingenious works of art were created by accident. The same applies to the cartoon "Parrot Kesha". was in an animation studio when the idea came to him. He noticed a parrot on the street, which obviously ran away from home. This bird was not at a loss and joined the flock of sparrows. Kurlyandsky liked this idea, and they began to invent the story of Kesha the Parrot. No one in the team had any idea that this storyline would be popular with the audience.

Creating animation was a pleasure for the whole team. Thanks to this, the team worked sincerely and with soul. Only 3 parts of the story came out of these people, but in the future there were projects involving the character. All series of the cartoon "Parrot Kesha" are as follows:

• "The Return of the Prodigal Parrot" - 3 parts from Soyuzmultfilm.
• "Morning parrot Kesha."
• "The New Adventures of Kesha the Parrot".
• "Parrot Kesha and the monster."

Undoubtedly, this cartoon has become a native for almost every inhabitant of the USSR. Thanks to humor and an interesting story that shows some of the people around, using Kesha's parrot as an example.

cartoon characters

The creators added quite a few characters, but each of them affects the development of the plot. Among them there are no sharply negative characters. Almost everyone is neutral about the parrot. Heroes who participated in the cartoon:

• Vovka. This is an ordinary boy who is constantly learning. He is patient with his capricious parrot. Vova turns a blind eye to all the tricks of Kesha and continues to take care of the pet.
• Fat cat. He is depicted as a very lazy and selfish creature. Lives with wealthy owners. Sometimes he admires the actions of the parrot Kesha. Sometimes he despises everything that the main character does.
• Parrot Kesha. This is the main character. He has a very complex character. It has the qualities of a selfish, short-tempered and capricious character.
• Crow. She is always in a landfill, where she tries to get food and valuables. Admires the main character, repeating every now and then: "Charming!".
• Sparrow. He has made several appearances in the cartoon. This character understands the main character very well.
• Evil boy. This hero bought a parrot and put it in a cage. At home, he made Kesha do all the dirty and difficult work.
• Basil. A simple-minded tractor driver who treats a parrot with kindness. This is a calm person who sometimes shares useful tips with Kesha.

In addition to these characters, a policeman appeared in the new version of the cartoon. He regularly follows the laws and punishes anyone who breaks them. They treat him neutrally, because there is no obvious hostility at all.

Cartoon voice acting

The sound of the protagonist is one of the most important components of the work. There was a good actor in this cartoon - Gennady Khazanov. He voiced characters in Just You Wait and The Adventures of Leopold the Cat. He got used to the role of a capricious parrot well, which made him fall in love with the public. The team used professional voice recording equipment. Therefore, the cartoon "Parrot Kesha" has become so loved by the audience. This confirmation is the recognition of the character.

Due to the beginning of the economic crisis in 1990, Soyuzmultfilm postponed the release of the fourth series of the cartoon. All the actions of the characters had already been written, it only remained to arrange all the details. The main director wanted to sign a contract with an animation studio in Germany, they were interested in filming Kesha the Parrot. However, their joint cartoon was never created.

A. Kurlyandsky wrote several more plot continuations of the cartoon in the form of books. However, he did not manage to implement them in the animation plan. This was affected by the lack of finances and assistants.

By the way, psychologists use the model from this work for dialogues with teenagers. They take Kesha's behavior as a basis and try to help children who begin to behave capriciously and selfishly. Also, all the situations in the cartoon helped families in understanding their children.

The image of the famous parrot is not tied to the studio. Therefore, it is used in various pirated products. Some foreign studios create animation using the image of Kesha's parrot. Other goods are also made with the participation of the character: coloring books, notebooks, stationery, and so on.