Soyuzmultfilm, 1943-4. Made during the darkest years of WW2. Based on a children's poem by Korney Chukovskiy. The poem existed before the war (written in 1927), but the war made it very relevant.
Credits: http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2941
Original poem in Russian here: http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/chukovskij/solnce-po-nebu.html
Originally translated on: June 20, 2009
