Pilot Studio, 1995; this is the 1st return of the characters from the 1980s classic cartoon "The Koloboks Investigate" (also on my channel). I guess "The Pilot Brothers Sell Out" would be another good name. :) This was sponsored by a big company, and their logo is all over the film (not unusual for Russian animation of the time - in fact, even the 18th "Nu, pogodi" episode was sponsored in this way). The music is the Russian imitation of Western rock music, which was quite hip at the time. Can't say that I'm a fan of the music, but there's a lot of energy in the animation. This has very few spoken Russian words, none of them essential, and half of those I couldn't make out anyway. So it wasn't very hard to "subtitle" it. ;) The animator.ru profile is here: http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=4828 Neither this film, nor the ones that followed, have ever been released on DVD for some reason, and many of them I could only find with poor image quality. This one isn't too bad.
