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03.11.2019

The popular animated trilogy of the eighties, Return of the Prodigal Parrot, features funny stories about a wayward parrot named Kesha.

The first part, created at the dawn of perestroika in 1984, created a real sensation. Soviet animation had never seen such cartoons before - comedic, multi-faceted, with a relevant parody socio-political note: a capricious parrot, a fugitive and a returnee.

Formally aimed at a children's audience, "Return" was wildly popular among the older generation. The cartoon was stolen for quotes. The notorious animation “for adults” - hand-drawn “Wicks”, exposing either drunkenness or parasitism - faded next to “The Return of the Prodigal Parrot”. The tired work morale played out against the subtext, the existence of which was hardly suspected by the creators - director Valentin Aleksandrovich Karavaev and screenwriter Alexander Efimovich Kurlyandsky.

Although, why didn’t you guess? If Karavaev and Kurlyandsky had limited themselves to one issue of “Return”, then one could talk about unintentional luck and stray subtext. But over the course of several years, the same people created two more parts, so consistent and deep that there is no need to talk about “accidents”.

Kurlyandsky and Karavaev probably understood how close the little capricious parrot was to the Soviet audience, how recognizable it was. After all, it was the image, harmoniously voiced by Gennady Khazanov, and the dramaturgy that ensured the success of the cartoon, and not the hackneyed fine art(the boy Vovka, the owner of the parrot Kesha, looks exactly like the Kid from “Carlson”).

Innovation was carried out by Yuri Norshtein, who released the philosophical “Hedgehog in the Fog” back in 1975. Karavaev and Kurlyandsky were able to rise to the level of ideology.

By 1984, the censorship apparatus of the Soviet Union had already been weakened, but not so much that one could not notice how ambiguous The Return was. But the fact of the matter is that this second meaning suited official ideology. The cartoon wittily denounced the eternal fifth column - the dissident community and its national flavor.

That’s why the obviously provocative title “Return of the Prodigal...” was left. The parody context immediately began to work on the “image.”

From the first glance at Kesha, it became clear that the nationality of the parrot was “biblical”: the eastern type - that’s why it’s a “parrot”, round protruding eyes, a Semitic nose-beak. Parrots are known to live long lives. Kesha was supposed to be perceived as Agasfer, a kind of eternal Parrot.

Keshina’s speech is a media “organ”, a brainless warehouse of television and radio quotes for all occasions. Kesha is dominated not by her mind, but by her character. And quite bad. The cartoon shows in every possible way that Kesha’s owner, the boy Vovka (read, power), dotes on the parrot (the Jew), and Kesha is always dissatisfied with everything.

The first "flight" of the parrot parodies the so-called "internal emigration". The plot develops as follows: Vovka refuses Kesha to accept “spiritual food” - the parrot watches a crime drama on TV - something like “Petrovka, 38”, with chases and shooting.

The boy Vovka does not watch an empty film, but diligently does his homework. And he asks the parrot to turn down the sound. The parrot perceives these requests as an infringement of its rights and freedoms. The turned off TV puts an end to the relationship between Vovka and Kesha. A parrot throws itself from the balcony. This blatant simulation of suicide is meant to highlight the divide. Vovka personifies the state and power, with which Kesha can no longer have any relationship. It was as if he had died for them.

At first, the buffoonish escape frightens Kesha. He understands that he was Vovka’s favorite. In fact, his act is nothing more than hysterical acting. But it’s no longer possible to return home. Kesha is lost and cannot find his window.

The dissident parrot is saved by the public, the inhabitants of the yard: a fat cat, a crow, sparrows. Kesha “performs” - reproduces all the verbal garbage that has settled in his head after listening to the “voices”. This is ridiculous, inside-out information that amuses both the cat and the crow.

“I’m flying to Tahiti one day... Haven’t you been to Tahiti?” - this is how Kesha begins her speeches. “Tahiti” should sound like the “promised land” - the historical homeland of Kesha, an exotic place.

A fat cat is a sybarite, a major, a pet of power, the family enemy of all “birds”, and at the same time completely safe due to its satiety and laziness. Dissident gatherings have always known such types - children of the party or scientific elite, sleek and generous pseudo-rebels.

Vorona is a bohemian, a typical intellectual, a lively scavenger with an inexhaustible supply of optimism, like that of former blockade survivors. She has the same answer to all of Kesha’s passages: “Simply lovely!”

When the “cold weather” sets in (the political thaw is over), the cat gives Kesha his merciless but fair verdict: “We haven’t been to Tahiti, we are fed well here too.” These are difficult times for the domestic expat.

Only the sparrow remains with Kesha - a mongrel intellectual, the last faithful listener. Perhaps the parrot and the sparrow are brought together by “Biblicalism,” because in Rus' the sparrow is an established image of a Jew.

The chilled couple prowls the balconies in search of food. Kesha notices Vovka in one of the windows. The prodigal parrot happily returns home, immediately forgetting about his hungry sparrow friend.

While Kesha was dissident, Vovka got a puppy (the future dog of the regime), whose presence the parrot would not have tolerated before. Now Kesha has been temporarily re-educated by the street, pacified. He is even ready to share the place of favorite with a big-eared puppy. The former swagger has faded into the background, servility prevails.

When Vovka again asks to turn down the TV, Kesha immediately fulfills the request, pointing at the puppy: “What am I doing? I’m okay... He can’t hear it!”

The dissident seems to have been tamed and broken.

But there is still gunpowder in the flasks. A new rebellion and escape is brewing. External emigration.

In the second part of "Return of the Prodigal Parrot", Kesha runs to the "West".

Return II, or “It’s Me, Keshechka”

The second issue of Return of the Prodigal Parrot (1987) tells the story of the subsequent round of dissident escape. Internal emigration is evolving into external emigration.

This scenario move was quite consistent with reality Soviet life the first half of the seventies, when Soviet Union reluctantly, as if through clenched teeth, he released the fifth column and the fifth count. The grumbling, whining, home-grown Abram Terts-Sinyavsky ibn Kesha runs to the “West.” And even though in the cartoon the “West” turns out to be conventional and symbolic, this does not stop it from being a place of decay and a focus of vice. There, “overseas”, in the homeland of bubble gum and jeans, life will teach Kesha a cruel emigrant lesson in the spirit of “It’s me, Eddie.”

Even in the first issue, the parrot is shown as a morally corrupt type - lazy, capricious, monstrously ambitious. The stage of internal emigration on the “Arbat” garbage dump additionally corrupted Kesha. Under the pressure of circumstances, of course, he returned to Vovka, that is, into the bosom of the Soviet system, but this is a temporary truce. Cash can't be fixed. In the words of house manager Mordyukova, the dissident parrot is still “secretly visiting the synagogue.”

The impetus for change is the notorious “elements sweet life”, to which Kesha is internally drawn. In the morning, while walking the dog, he comes to his birthplace, his intellectual “kitchen”, so that, as in the old days, good times give a concert to regular spectators: sparrows and crows. Everything is ruined by a fat cat, the damned major - he appears in new jeans, with a player and chewing gum: “Grayness, this is a bubble gum!”

Society is shocked by this display of luxury. They immediately forget about Cash. The garbage intelligentsia shows its superficial insides and lack of spirituality. Western things turn out to be more attractive than the creations of Kesha’s spirit.

The extremely narcissistic Kesha begins to be consumed by envy. He returns home to Vovka and, although he is a male creature, makes a scene female type: “What do I wear, rags, like Cinderella!” Vovka, that is, the Motherland, with the words “Choose!” generously opens the closet, but Kesha is not interested in the benefits of the domestic light industry. Having burst into tears, Kesha cynically “files for divorce”: “Goodbye, our meeting was a mistake” - and retires to those places where “luxury” is available.

If Keshin’s first escape was a hysterical reaction to the ban and the parrot, albeit with a stretch, could be called a rebel, then the second “emigration” was a calculated act of the consumer. Kesha is ready to sell himself for jeans, a player and a bubble gum.

First of all, having got to the “West”, Kesha puts herself up for auction. A spoiled parrot has inadequate self-esteem and sets a price for itself of a thousand rubles - an exorbitant Soviet sum. Kesha forgets that he is no longer in Vovka’s apartment, that he has entered the territory market relations. Nobody needs a parrot for a thousand, a hundred, or even ten rubles. Reality quickly knocks down arrogance. Only when Kesha has discounted himself to zero does he find a buyer.

Who is the new owner of Keshin? Outwardly, this is a typical offspring of the Farza of the late eighties. He is fashionably dressed, his apartment is filled with luxury items that were iconic for the Soviet average person - a VCR, a table on wheels, etc.

Unlike the blond Slavic Vovka, the new Master looks like a typical pig-like Anglo-Saxon, akin to Private Ryan - a large, cruel youth. He is the Master of the “West” and the wayward feathered Jew Kesha will have a very hard time with him.

The first shots of Kesha’s new life in the “West” should mislead the viewer. Kesha, wearing a new T-shirt with Mickey Mouse, is lying on the sofa with a player, listening to “Modern Talking”, drinking the mysterious drink “Coka”, watching the VCR. It seems that the new capitalist life has been a success...

Everything falls into place during Kesha’s phone call to Vovka. The parrot traditionally lies, like many of his fellow emigrants, who spent their last dollars talking to their homeland, lazily and complacently reported about their financial achievements, their own car, a color TV, Coca-Cola in the refrigerator, so that later with new strength after the lie they could return to dirty dishes in a restaurant or driving a vomited taxi...

Kesha is no exception: “I swim in the pool, drink juice, orangeade, I have a lot of friends, a car.” It is important that in conversation he mixes into his voice the characteristic accent of a second-generation emigrant - sophisticated coquetry on the part of the cunning Kesha. This lie to save his pride reconciles him with reality. By the way, Kesha is watching the film “Umbrella Injection” on the VCR. This film was released in the Soviet Union, so Kesha did not benefit much in the sense of “spiritual food”.

But then the Anglo-Saxon returns, the parrot hastily crumples up the conversation and hangs up. It is clear that Kesha is terribly afraid of the Master. It soon becomes clear why. He pushes around the worthless parrot, mocks, humiliates. From a favorite and favorite, Kesha turned into a servant, into a slave. Kesha whines: “Vovka loved me so much, he literally carried me in his arms.”

Alas, capitalism up close turned out to be not so attractive. An epiphany sets in. After another humiliation, Kesha allows herself to raise her voice at the Master. “West” shows its bestial face, the rebel immediately finds himself in a cage. Kesha can only chant: “Freedom for parrots!” Yes, bawling protest songs of the abandoned fatherland: “Let there always be Vovka, let there always be me!”

Coming home from prison is no longer easy. Newfound cinematic experience comes to the rescue. Kesha breaks the cage and constructs an explosive device from “Western” waste. When the door is blown up, Kesha is concussed. He is surrounded by nightmare visions, demonic guises of capitalism, and he comes to his senses already in Vovka’s apartment. The emigration did not pass without a trace - Kesha is in bandages, damaged both physically and mentally. Kesha admits like Limonov’s hero: I felt bad, I was alone.

There were no prerequisites for the parrot to return home. And yet - Kesha is in her homeland. This moment can be perceived as the invasion of a miracle. The creators of the cartoon, of course, could have devoted ten seconds to an additional episode in which the Anglo-Saxon throws the half-dead Kesha into the trash, and there he is picked up by Vovka, who went for a walk with a puppy.

The authors understood that these explanations were unnecessary. Still, Kesha - collective image restless Jewish intelligentsia. Yes, some part of “Keshi” that fled to the West significantly paid for betrayal, but the rest received good lesson and calmed down... until a new escape. Now - to the people.

Return III, or "Flight to the People"

The third and final installment of the adventures of the prodigal parrot (1988) tells the story of going “to the people.” Kesha decides to “Russify”.

In fact, all of Kesha’s previous escapes are a kind of search for the truth, the mythical Belovodye, the promised Tahiti. Kesha conducts her search primarily in the cultural field, namely, consistently aligns herself with certain social trends.

In the first two issues, Kesha was both a dissident and a cosmopolitan. Internal emigration failed, emigration to the “West” disappointed in capitalism. Born in the Union, Kesha failed to become either a giant of spirit or a citizen of the world. But there is another way out. Somewhere nearby, literally nearby, there is another influential cultural tendency - Russian, populist, which says that you don’t need to go far to find the truth - it is nearby, outside the city, in the simplicity, in the purity of agrarian life, in unity with nature.

Events develop as follows. A fat red cat informs the dumpster regulars that he is going to the village for the summer. It is noteworthy that for the second time the cat major acts as a trendsetter in fashion. In the previous episode, he seduced Kesha with jeans and a player.

Stung by envy, Kesha rushes home to demand from Vova his share of “Russianness,” just like a character from a joke of that time - a meticulous telephone Jew who calls the Society Memory: “Is it true that the Jews sold Russia, and if so, where can I get my share?..”

It’s impossible to go to the village - Vovka is sick. We see Kesha already in a new “Russian” role. Instead of a T-shirt, he wears something like a woman's peasant underwear. He grumbles at Vovka like an old woman: “Winter is not enough for him to be sick.”

As sad as it may be, in 1988 Vovka, that is, the Soviet Union, was already fundamentally ill. If Kesha knew that “Vovka” was not destined to recover, that he would last another three years, until August 1991...

Sad events are still ahead, and in the meantime Kesha packs her suitcase and leaves to live in the village, “to her roots.”

It takes a long time for anyone to pick up Kesha on the highway. But suddenly Vasily appears on a tractor - the embodiment of a cliché from feature films about the village. In any case, this is exactly how the urban man in the street imagines Kesha as a villager. Vasily is simple-minded, good-natured, hospitable.

Vasily takes Kesha to the Bright Path state farm. He is polite and invariably addresses his interlocutor as “You,” while the arrogant Kesha tactlessly pokes: “I just want to, with people, like you!” Simple guys, which we have at every step!”

Vasily returns from the museum - in this way he became familiar with the “high”. Kesha sings “Russian Field” - this is his form of merging with Russian identity.

In general, everything cultural codes, with which Kesha operates in order to find an approach to Vasily, in fact, stereotypes and only create comic effect. It is difficult to imagine something more ridiculous than a parrot (that is, a Jew) in the village. As it turns out later, he is also socially dangerous. Kesha causes nothing but problems and losses.

In the morning Kesha wakes up in village house, looking for breakfast, dropping pots, getting dirty in the stove, screaming for Vasily to help. A parrot is not able to find food in the house, even if it is just on the table.

After breakfast, Kesha goes for a walk and gets acquainted with the “farm”: a pig with piglets, a horse, a rooster and chickens. For the parrot, the inhabitants of the yard are the public. And in the village he does his usual thing, namely, chaotically reproduces the city “culture” - in in this case a mix of Antonov, Pugacheva and a meaningless set of phrases from “Rural Hour”: “Tell me, how many tons of clover from each laying hen will be poured into incubators after threshing the plowed land?”

Among living creatures, “art” does not meet with support, rather bewilderment and irritation, except that the horse “neighs” at the performer himself.

Having brought himself to creative exaltation - Kesha impersonates a rock and roll performer - the parrot falls into a well. Vasily, who has returned, saves him and then lends the wet parrot a cap and a quilted jacket.

Kesha internally understands her worthlessness. In many Soviet films the story of a clumsy neophyte is played out, who, having found himself in a new environment for him, with hard work breaks the situation and breaks out into the drummers. Kesha is also obsessed with the idea of proving his importance and usefulness: “I can, I will prove, I will show! They will find out about me. They'll talk about me!"

But there is no transformation. Kesha turns out to be incapable of peasant labor. (In a good way, to work in general.) He is destructive like Chubais or Gaidar, who a few years later will demonstrate to the country their terrible talents...

Having got into Vasily's tractor, Kesha first destroys buildings in the yard, and then dumps the tractor into the river. At the same time, Vasily shows miracles of tolerance - he just sighs and waves his hand resignedly.

A conscience awakens in the parrot, or rather, not even a conscience, but its acting surrogate, Kesha, brands himself, calls himself a nonentity, a pathetic person and decides to “die like a man.” (By the way, this is the first and last time, when the parrot declares his boyishness, because all his behavior is a rehash of the anecdotal Jewish wife, who, as you know, “everything hurts.”)

Hanging from a light bulb turns into a performance. The pigs, the horse, and Vasily himself watch the process with curiosity. At the same time, no one tries to stop the parrot - there is too much harm from it.

The image of Kesha is completely devoid of drama: Yesenin does not turn out to be a parrot. Vasily sends him home in a parcel.

The inhabitants of the garbage dump welcome the returning cat. He probably didn’t go among the people, but was just a summer resident. But then Kesha appears. He is wearing a quilted jacket and a cap - he, as always, is “in character.” With a crack of the whip, Kesha bursts into a tirade of maddened village prose: “Oh, you! Haven’t you smelled life?! And I’m a whole summer, a whole summer: mowing in the morning, milking in the evening, then the cow farrows, then the chickens rush. And then the cherry blossomed! The beets are sprouting! You plow like a tractor! What if it rains during drying, eh?”, he lights a “goat’s leg”, chokes on “the smoke of the fatherland”, starts coughing...

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"Return of the Prodigal Parrot" - famous cartoon about the charismatic parrot Kesha, which has become a recognized classic Soviet animation and a treasure trove of unforgettable quotes.

Kesha was created by writer Alexander Kurlyandsky, animator director Valentin Karavaev and animator Anatoly Savchenko, and the final and unique charm of the character was given by his voice actor Gennady Khazanov. In 1984 - 1988, three episodes of a cartoon about a parrot were released, built on the same plot basis: Kesha runs away from home, gets into trouble and eventually, disappointed and ashamed, returns to native home. After a long break, in the 2000s, Soyuzmultfilm released several more episodes about the prodigal parrot, but they were created by a different creative team and reproduced the success of the first three stories Unfortunately, we couldn't.

Judging by the interesting metaphors in “The Return of the Prodigal Parrot,” the cartoon, although presented as a children’s cartoon, is much more valuable for an adult audience.

This is, in a good way, an adult cartoon.

Kaleidoscopic thinking(Kesha's rambling speeches, made up of scraps of TV and radio phrases), theme of the Motherland and Western expansion(“Oh, you grayness! This is a bubble-gum! The owner brought it. With this one, what’s it like... - Tahiti? - That’s it”), stereotypes successful life (“I live well, I swim in the pool, I drink juice, orangeade... Yes, yes - right without leaving the pool”), cultural defection(“According to your numerous requests, the Weiner brothers will perform the song Modern Talking!”) – the children’s cartoon subtly and satirically presents themes that obviously appeal to adult understanding.

Surprisingly, the funny cartoon also contains a serious central motive - betrayal of a loved one with its unhappy consequences. In all three episodes, the prodigal Kesha does not want to support his owner and friend Vovka: turn down the volume of the TV when he is preparing for a test, look after a sick boy during the holiday season, calmly treat the owner’s inability to dress him, poor man, in the fashionable jeans that are available. from the fat neighbor's cat.

Lured away from his home by erroneous dreams of a successful life, Kesha hopes for the triumph of his not-so-distant, almost consumer interests, but this does not even happen. Having betrayed his home, the parrot finds an unenviable fate: he ends up in a garbage dump, where he gives concerts for stupid local audiences for food, and sells himself for free to a pro-Western home tyrant and to the point of wanting to commit suicide, he dishonors his honor at the state farm “Shining Path”.

Conclusion

Parrot Kesha, although charming and artistic, is essentially an anti-hero, whose selfish, eccentric behavior contradicts serious matters (the studies of the exemplary Vova, the activities of the state farm), which is why the prodigal parrot has to reconsider his views over and over again.

The cartoon “The Return of the Prodigal Parrot”, in general, is an example of positive and bright patriotic art, where the betrayer of his family is portrayed as ridiculous, stupid and humiliated, but peacefully called upon to return to the starting point for re-education.

In 1984.

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An animated series about the adventures of the parrot Kesha, “the hero of our time.” All the action is concentrated in a certain abstract Russian city and its surroundings. Kesha lives in the apartment of schoolboy Vovka, but due to his hot-tempered, arrogant character, he periodically runs away to free bread and certainly gets into trouble, eventually returning to Vovka to confess. The series' humor is based on Kesha's eccentric behavior, recognizable realities (in the beginning - the 1980s, later - the 2000s), as well as on multiple quotes used by the parrot.

List of releases

Our director Valentin Karavaev was once walking down the street and saw a flock of sparrows sitting on the railing. And in the very center there was a parrot who was animatedly “telling” something to them. This made an impression on Karavaev, he began to fantasize: where did this parrot come from, did it get lost or ran away from home. The director shared his ideas with playwright Kurlyandsky, and together they wrote the script. And then I came up with the image of Kesha himself.

According to him, the whole tone of the series was set by Valentin Karavaev, who, however, lost interest in the characters after the first issue and became interested in other projects. Therefore, the second episode was directed by Alexander Davydov. For it he was awarded the Nika Prize, which apparently hurt Karavaev and forced him to return to work on the third issue.

The economic crisis of the early 1990s delayed the release of the fourth issue of the cartoon for a long time, although the script was written. Alexander Kurlyandsky negotiated with German colleagues about creating an animated series of 13 issues abroad, but the project was not completed.

In the 2000s, after Karavaev’s death, Kurlyandsky made an attempt to revive the main character of the series. Work is again underway with Alexander Davydov. The rest of the creative team changes almost completely. All new cartoons have original names. The key remains only the phrase “Kesha parrot”.

In March 2017, the chairman of the artistic council of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, Tatyana Ilyina, announced plans to create full-length cartoon"Kesha in Tahiti" in 3D format. The script for it was written by Alexander Kurlyandsky four years earlier. In June of the same year, the chairman of the board of the studio, Yuliana Slashcheva, confirmed this information. Filming should begin in 2018, and the premiere of the film is scheduled for 2020.

Characters

Parrot Kesha

The main character of the cartoon. Voiced by: Gennady Khazanov (first three issues), Igor Khristenko (subsequent issues).

Self-centered, demanding of increased attention, capricious and wayward. Favorite hobby- watching television films and programs is completely different (judging by vocabulary) topics, from crime series to concert programs:

The phrases “Sberkassa was robbed”, “Shurik, be careful, the criminal is armed”, “And Major Tomin is telling me” - perhaps a reference to the series “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts”;
The mention of “Mrs. Monica” is an obvious reference to the TV show “Zucchini” “13 chairs””;
The phrase “I am a pathetic, insignificant person” is a reference to a line from a character in I. Ilf and E. Petrov’s story “The Golden Calf” - Panikovsky;
In addition, in his monologues, the parrot mentions the “culinary college” (a cycle of miniatures performed by Gennady Khazanov, told from the perspective of a “culinary college student”), quotes Mikhail Zhvanetsky’s feuilleton “Figure in the Museum” (“In the Greek hall, in the Greek hall... a white mouse "), sports reports by Nikolai Ozerov, weather forecast ("fog in the region"), mentions the names of some television and radio programs ("Rural Hour", "Before 16 and older", "Before and after midnight", "Good morning" etc.). Also quotes popular songs performed by Demis Roussos, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alla Pugacheva, Yuri Antonov and others.

Vovka

Kurlyandsky is called “a man of amazing imagination,” and the cartoon “The Return of the Prodigal Parrot” is a creation “with ageless Soviet humor and irony,” a film that “is worthy of being watched more than a dozen times.”

According to Daria Pechorina, a parrot’s thirst for adventure is nothing more than “an excuse for liberation from a controlling and all-seeing society.” Thus, Kesha is simply trying to free herself from the care of the faithful but boring Vovka.

Notes

Sergey Kapkov, interview with Anatoly Savchenko. My teacher is curiosity (undefined) . Website of domestic animation "Animator.ru"(July 18, 2004).
Based on materials from the article by S. Kapkov “New adventures of the parrot Kesha” on the website www.animator.ru
Parrot Kesha will be filmed in 3D (undefined) . Russian newspaper(March 19, 2017).
"Soyuzmultfilm" will make a film about Kesha and is going to solve the problem of rights to "Carlson" (undefined) . TASS(June 3, 2017).
A full-length cartoon about the parrot Kesha will be released in 2020 (undefined) . RIA News(June 3, 2017).

Parrot Kesha

The main character of the cartoon.

Self-centered, demanding of increased attention, capricious and wayward. In all its habits and external color it most closely resembles a parrot of the macaw family.

The plumage is bright. Raspberry head. There are large white circles around the eyes. Lush green crest. There is a white “collar” on the neck, reminiscent of a frill. The wings are green at the base, with a pink stripe. The purple feathers at the ends serve as fingers in many cases. The body is pink. The paws are yellow, with three toes (two in front, one behind). The tail consists of three green feathers with pink tips.

Often wears clothes:

In the first issue, only at the very beginning: sitting in a chair in sneakers.
In the second issue, he wears a blue Mickey Mouse T-shirt in the new owner's apartment.
At the beginning of the third issue he appears in Vovka's white T-shirt. Then he changes into striped shorts with suspenders, a visor cap and beach goggles. Then in several episodes he wears Vasily’s sweatshirt and his cap.

Favorite pastime: watching television films and programs. Judging by the vocabulary, they cover completely different topics - from crime chronicles to lyrical concert programs.

The speech is sometimes incoherent, reminiscent of a set of quotes from programs watched and songs heard.

Vovka

The owner of Kesha.

Boy school age. Constantly teaches lessons. Gets sick often.

In the first two issues of the cartoon, he wears a yellow turtleneck and a blue school uniform. In the third issue, he appears in a yellow T-shirt at the beginning, and in a blue sweatshirt at the end.

Patient with a capricious parrot. She cares about him and worries about him. He tries in every possible way to show Kesha his love. He is calm about Kesha’s antics, easily forgives them and takes Kesha back every time.

Other characters

Fat red cat- lazy, imposing, swaggering, with arrogance. Lives with rich owners. Life principle: “Rested - wow! Sour cream - wow! Pisces - wow!”
Crow- infantile, phlegmatic. Forced to constantly scavenge in the trash in search of food. He approaches everything with optimism. Favorite phrase: “Lovely! Simply lovely!”
Puppy- first appears in the first issue, after Kesha's return. Doesn't play a key role in the cartoon. Sublimates Vovka’s love for the parrot.

Plot

Continuation of the series

In the 2000s, after the death of V. Karavaev, A. Kurlyandsky made an attempt to revive the main character of the series. Work is underway with director A. Davydov. The rest of the creative team changes almost completely.

All cartoons have original names. The key remains only the phrase “Kesha parrot”.

In 2002, the cartoon “The Morning of Kesha the Parrot” was released. Then other series followed: “New Adventures of the Kesha Parrot” in 2005, “The Kidnapping of the Kesha Parrot”, “Kesha the Parrot and the Monster” in 2006.

The cartoons were released at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio.

Valentin Karavaev once saw a parrot in winter, which apparently flew out through the window and now did not know how to return. They began to think: why did he fly out? I got offended and quarreled with the boy. Why? He probably behaved impudently, imitated everyone... And gradually the image of a kind of bird-like Khlestakov arose - a talker, a dreamer, a braggart.

Reviews

Critics unanimously agree that Kesha is not a simple cartoon character. His character is written in detail and was initially conceived in such a way as to win the sympathy of the audience. At the same time, cartoons are more loved and appreciated by adults than by children.

Genre: Children's
Publisher: Akella
Russian language

System requirements: Windows XP SP2 (pyc), Pentium III 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB DirectX 9-compatible 3D video card (GeForce 4 level and higher, except built-in video cards and MX-series), DirectX 9-compatible sound card, 800 MB free space on hard disk, 24x CD-ROM, keyboard, mouse DiretcX 9.0c.

Parrot Kesha - mathematician

Kesha the parrot goes to a tropical island to have a good rest and make new friends.

Developer Parus Studio
Publisher Akella
For children from 6 to 12 years old

System requirements: Operating system Windows XP SP2 Processor Pentium III 1 GHz RAM 512 MB of RAM Video DirectX 9-compatible. 3D v.k. ur. GeForce 4 and higher Sound DirectX 9.0-compatible sound card CD-ROM drive Control keyboard, mouse

Parrot Kesha learns the alphabet

Plot: A parrot goes to a tropical island, meets the natives and learns the alphabet.

The game is intended for children 6-7 years old
Developer: Parus
Publisher: Akella
Game released: 08/27/2008
Genre: Family, For Kids

System requirements: P3-1.0, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB 3D Card

Kesha in the world of fairy tales

Plot: Kesha took a book with fairy tales to read.

Year of manufacture: 2006
Style - Children's quest.
Publisher: Akella
Developer: Origames Studio
Interface language: Russian.

System requirements: Win 98/2000/ME/XP (Rus); Pentium III 500 MHz; 128 MB RAM; 32 MB DirectX8-compatible 3D video card; DirectX-compatible sound card; 800 MB of hard disk space; CD-ROM 24x; Keyboard; Mouse.

Parrot Kesha. Freedom for parrots!

Issue - 2006
Style - Children's quest.
Publisher: Akella
Developer: Origames Studio
Interface language: Russian.
The goal is to save Brazilian parrots from complete extinction.

Minimum system requirements: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP; Pentium III 500MHz; 128 MB RAM; 32 MB DirectX8-compatible 3D video card; DirectX-compatible sound card; 800 MB. hard drive space; 24x CD-ROM; Keyboard; Mouse.

Parrot Kesha: Have you been to Tahiti?

Plot: Together with the pot-bellied cat Vasily, the parrot set off on a journey.

Genres: Arcade
Interface language: Russian
Year of manufacture: 2006
Developer: Burut CT
Publisher in Russia: Akella

Minimum System Requirements: System: Win 98/2000/ME/XP Processor: Pentium III 500 MHz Memory: 128 MB RAM Video card: 32 MB DirectX 9-compatible 3D video card Audio card: DirectX-compatible sound card Hard disk: 800 MB of free hard disk space

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Nika Award for Best Animated Film

1987-2000

Return of the Prodigal Parrot (1987) · Breakfast on the Grass (1988)· Actor (1989) · Slap (1990) · Gray Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood (1991) · Bolero. Film of Heightened Spirituality (1992) · Origin of Species (1993) · Barber of Seville (1994) · Lion with a Gray Beard (1995) · The pilot brothers cook pasta for breakfast (1996) · Long Journey (1997) · Chucha (1998)· Pharaoh (1999) · Adagio (2000)

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