Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) on Netflix
A little Hedgehog walks through the evening woods to visit his friend the Bear Cub, with raspberry jam for tea. Fog rises, and among the shapes in it stands a white horse.
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Plot summary
The Hedgehog sets off through deserted fields and forest thickets to visit his friend the Bear Cub for tea with raspberry jam and a night of counting the stars. Night falls and fog gathers over the woods. The Hedgehog notices a white horse standing in the mist and goes closer to look at it, and the world inside the fog fills with odd shapes: an eagle-owl peering into a well, a snail that seems to become an elephant, a bat with a wide wingspan. He discovers his jam is missing and panics; a dog brings it back. The Bear Cub's voice keeps calling to him through the fog, and in his hurry to answer, the Hedgehog falls into the river.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
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- Yuri Norstein tied the right hand of his wife and production designer Francesca Yarbusova so that she would draw the Hedgehog left-handed, after the couple saw a woman with a tame hedgehog on an evening walk and she sketched the character in one line.
- The film's fog was made by laying a very thin piece of paper over the scene and lifting it toward the camera one frame at a time until everything behind it became blurry and white.
- Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli said he drew inspiration from animators including Yuri Norstein, and a framed portrait of the film's owl hangs in the Ghibli Museum.
- The Hedgehog had a statue in the centre of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, put up in January 2009 and standing until 2025.
- The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics named the film in a list of signature Russian accomplishments and artists that also included Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Sputnik.
