Peter & the Wolf (2006)

Director:

Suzie Templeton

Writers:

Sergei Prokofiev (libretto)
Suzie Templeton (adaptation)
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Release Date:

15 February 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Family | Music

Tagline:

Boys like Peter are not afraid of wolves...

Plot:

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather...

Plot Keywords:

Duck | Wolf | Woods | Locked Out | Cat

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations

Directed by
Suzie Templeton

Writing credits
Sergei Prokofiev		(libretto)
Suzie Templeton		(adaptation)
Marianela Maldonado

Produced by
Alan Dewhurst	....	producer
Lars Andreas Hellebust	....	executive producer
Simon Olswang	....	executive producer
Luc Toutounghi	....	executive producer: Archangel SA
Hugh Welchman	....	producer
Robert Whitehouse	....	executive producer
Zbigniew Zmudzki	....	co-producer

Cinematography by
Mikolaj Jaroszewicz

Film Editing by
Tony Fish
Suzie Templeton

Production Design by
Jane Morton
Marek Skrobecki

Art Direction by
Paulina Majda
Katarzyna Wasiela

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gareth Unwin	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Dino Athanassiou	....	storyboard artist
Piotr Dominiak	....	painter
Jacek Spychalski	....	props

Sound Department
Petter Fladeby	....	sound re-recording mixer
Bent Erik Holm	....	sound editor
Baard H. Ingebretsen	....	supervising sound editor
Erik S. Watland	....	foley artist

Visual Effects by
Kjetil Foss Birtles	....	rotoscope artist
Geoffroy Givry	....	senior digital compositor
Anette Gjertsen	....	digital data management
Tom Joelsen	....	visual effects coordinator
Hans Jørgen Kjærnet	....	renderman technical director
Yann Larochette	....	digital compositor
Tytus Majerski	....	visual effects artist
Morten Moen	....	visual effects supervisor
Espen Nordahl	....	junior compositor
Ivan Oliveira	....	motion control operator
Thibault Petillon	....	digital compositor
Kamil Polak	....	visual effects supervisor
Ghislain Rio	....	digital compositor
Piotr Szczepanowicz	....	visual effects artist
Otto Thorbjørnsen	....	visual effects editor
Matt Willis-Jones	....	colourist
Tim Zaccheo	....	visual effects artist
Artur Zicz	....	visual effects coordinator
Ronan Broudin	....	lead compositor: STORM (uncredited)
Kari Brown	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Björn Fredriksson	....	compositor (uncredited)
Samuel Karlsson	....	rotoscoping artist (uncredited)
Morten Moen	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Espen Schei	....	roto artist (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Malgorzata Bednarek	....	camera assistant
Jaroslaw Bedyk	....	gaffer
Andy Bowman	....	motion control
Magdalena Bryll	....	camera assistant
Andrzej Gorski	....	camera assistant
Jolanta Malicka	....	camera operator
Bogdan Malicki	....	camera operator
Tomasz Wochniak	....	camera assistant

Animation Department
Tim Allen	....	senior animator
Magdalena Bryll	....	additional animator
Krzysztof Brzozowski	....	senior animator
Martin Clapp	....	animator
Martin Clapp	....	previsualization artist
Martin Davies	....	animator
Ruth Ducker	....	previsualization artist
Wojciech Gierlowski	....	additional animator
Jan-Erik Maas	....	senior animator
Karoly Papp	....	senior animator
Jonny Templeton	....	additional animator
Anna Wojtania	....	animator
Adam Wyrwas	....	lead animator

Editorial Department
Michael Ho	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Mark Stephenson	....	conductor

Other crew
Scott Brooker	....	puppet fabricator
Jerome Fournier	....	visual development artist
Geoff Lindsey	....	script editor
Adam Partridge	....	production assistant
Adam Ptak	....	production coordinator
Agata Romanowicz	....	assistant to director
Tom Truscott	....	development artist
Claire Viroulaud	....	press attache france
Carlota Zapata	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Breakthru Films
• Se-ma-for Studios
• Channel 4 Television Corporation (in association with)
• Storm Studio (in association with)
• Archangel (executive producer)
• TV UNAM (in association with)
• Polish Film Institute (in association with)

Distributors

• Breakthru Films (2006) (worldwide) (all media)
• CAMI Spectrum (2006) (UK) (theatrical) (premiere)
• Les Films du Préau (2009) (France) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Philharmonia Orchestra, The  orchestra

Also Known As:

"Pedro y el lobo" - Mexico (imdb display title)
"Piotrus i wilk" - Poland
"Sergei Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf" - UK (complete title)
"Pedro y el lobo" - Argentina
"Pierre et le loup" - France

Runtime:

32 min

Country:

UK | Poland | Norway | Mexico

Language:

None

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland

Company:

Breakthru Films

Trivia:

At 32 minutes, this is the longest film to win the Best Animated Short category in the Academy Awards through 2010.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: Episode #37.7" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67

Pretty good, but not the best of the five nominees

This is the day before the Oscars are announced for 2008 and I just got back from a special screening by our local film society of all five films nominated in the category of Best Animated Short Film. This film was among the five and while a very good film, it just seemed in a different league compared to the two best nominees, Petrov's "Moya lyubov" and "Même les pigeons vont au paradis"--as these two films were great and clearly deserve the statuette (too bad they can't give two).

"Peter and the wolf" is a retelling of the Prokofiev's classic musical tale. Unlike other versions, this one is not set in the 19th century but more recent times, as there are cars and other modern things in the film. Also, unlike many of the previous versions, this one does not use traditional animation but stop-motion animation--producing a very pretty film.

As for me, although this is a lovely film and tooks years to make, this is a wonderful case of "been there, done that" because I have seen this story before and frankly don't want to see yet another version of this classic tale. While the animation is nice, the creators of this short film did not need to spend much time writing--just adapting a story. Because of that, I just can't see it winning the Oscar. Pretty good, but probably not in the running for the award.

2/24/08--Apparently I am terrible at guessing Oscars as this film DID win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. It was a lovely film--its winning just surprised me.