The Tempest
- Studio
- Christmas Films, Soyuzmultfilm, Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Wales), HIT Entertainment PLC, Home Box Office (HBO), Fujisankei, Dave Edwards Studio Cardiff
- Animation studio
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Distributor
- British Broadcasting Corporation
Synopsis
A marvelous and terrifying island, peopled by spirits and monsters, is the ideal setting for demonstrating how puppets can become extraordinarily convincing "actors." Caliban becomes an almost "human" monster and Prospero's magic brings the spirit Ariel to life as no stage performance ever could.
Characters
Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, Miranda, Ferdinand, Alonzo, Gonzalo, Sebastian, Antonio, Stephano, Trinculo
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Stanislav Sokolov
Producing
- Producer
- Dave Edwards
- Producer (Christmas Films)
- Renat Zinnurov
- Executive Producers
- Elizabeth Babakhina, Christopher Grace
- Associate Producer (HIT Entertainment)
- Peter Orton
- Associate Producer (BBC)
- Theresa Plummer-Andrews
- Associate Producer (Soyuzmultfilms)
- Stanislav Roshkov
Writing
- Writer
- Leon Garfield (Screenplay)
- Based On The Original Plays By
- William Shakespeare
Animation
- Animator
- Natalia Dabizha, Vyacheslav Shilobreyev, Olga Panokina
Voices
- Voice
- Martin Jarvis (Narrator), Timothy West (Prospero), Alun Armstrong (Caliban), Ella Hood (Ariel), Katy Behean (Miranda), Jonathan Tafler (Ferdinand), John Moffatt (Alonzo), James Greene (Gonzalo), Sion Probert (Sebastian), Peter Guinness (Antonio), Stephen Thorne (Stephano), Ric Jerrom (Trinculo)
Music
- Music
- Yuri Novikov
Editing
- Editor
- Nadezhda Treschyova
- Supervising Editor
- Elena Mikhailova
- Post-Production Editor
- Terry Brown
- Script Editor
- Elena Nikitkina
Crew
- Production Design
- Natalia Demidova, Peter Kotov
- Production Managers
- Alexander Sokolov, Philip Watkins
- Artist
- Lyubov Gorelova
- Music Recording Directors
- Rauf Atamalibekov, Vyacheslav Bednov, Sergei Karpov, Gennadi Papin
- Music Editor
- Nina Savicheva
- Conductor
- Algirdas Paulavitchus
- Camera Operator
- Vadim Prudnikov
- Camera
- Alexander Vikhansky
- Sound Engineer
- Martin Gifford
- Dubbing Engineer
- Billy Mahoney
- Stunts
- Marc Cass
- Interpreters
- Inna Basharimova, Natalia Filatova, Natalia Stebletzova, Maria Torchinskaya, Julia Yeryomina
- Video Coordinator
- Marley Bryan
- Production Secretary
- Trina Flower
- Lighting Designer
- Vladimir Gogelgants
- Legal Coordinator
- Sara Griffiths
- Production Coordinators
- Huw Walters, Igor Markozyan
- Academic Advisor
- Dr. Rex Gibson
- Educational Advisor
- Michael Marland
- Literary Advisor
- Professor Stanley Wells
- Laboratories
- Mosfilm, Moscow, United Kingdom
- Production Assistants
- Vera Lavrik, Anna Roberts, Alina Vlasova
- Production Accountant
- Margaret Stanley
- Art Director
- Elena Livanova
- Puppets and Backgrounds
- Alexander Maximov, Valery Petrov, Nadezhda Lyarskaya, Nina Moleva, Natalia Grinberg, Oleg Massainov, Vladimir Maslov, Victor Grishin, Vladimir Abbakumov, Vladimir Konobeyev, Natalia Barkovskaya, Michael Koltunov, Anna Vetukova, Sergei Popov, Alexander Belyahev, Vladimir Alisov, Nikolai Zaklyakov
Companies and other credits
- Academic Coordinator: Roy Kendall
- Laboratories: Studio Film Laboratories Ltd
- Video Facilities: SVC Television (London)
- Completion Guarantee: Film Finances Limited
Production notes
Combined drawn and stop-motion puppet animation.
Russian title: "Burya."
Russian title: "Burya."