The Orange Neck

Two pairs of partridges, Brovkins and Podkovkins, hatch by twelve chicks. Podkovkins get acquainted with the lark, and both the Brovkins family are killed by a falcon. Podkovkin's wife, the Orange Neck, decides to adopt chicks as their own. In the autumn, she brings twenty-four chicks to a meeting of partridges, and she is chosen as the main chicken.

• Aleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaDirector
• Vladimir PolkovnikovDirector
• Nikolay ErdmanScreenplay
• Vitalii BiankiScreenplay

• Mariya BabanovaThe Lark (voice)
• Georgiy VitsinPodkovkin (voice)
• Irina GoshevaThe Orange Neck (voice)
• Yuri MedvedevBrovkin (voice)
• Valentina TeleginaThe Senior Chicken (voice)
• Galina NovozhilovaThe Blue Spout (voice)