Ma-ma (1976 film)

For other uses, see Mama.
Rock'n'Roll Wolf
Directed by Elisabeta Bostan
Starring Lyudmila Gurchenko
Mikhail Boyarsky
Oleg Popov
Saveliy Kramarov
George Mihaita
Florian Pittiş
Production
company
Romania Film
Mosfilm
Ralux Film
Release dates
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
83 minutes
Country Romania
Soviet Union
France
Language Romanian
Russian
English

Rock'n'Roll Wolf (Romanian: Mama, Russian: Мама) is a musical film from 1976 and is a Romanian-Soviet-French co-production.

The storyline is loosely based on the famous plot about the Goat and her kids, published as "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" in Grimm's Fairy Tales and known to Romanian audience as Ion Creangă's "Capra cu trei iezi" ("The Goat and her three kids") and to Russian audience as a folk tale "Волк и семеро козлят" ("The Wolf and the Seven Kids"). In the movie. the number of goat kids is five. The script was written by Vasilica Istrate and Yuri Entin, and Elisabeta Bostan directed.

The movie was filmed simultaneously in three different languages (Romanian, Russian and English). The cast was formed by dancers from Moscow Circus, Moscow Circus on Ice and Bolshoi Ballet. In 1977, the movie won the Silver Cup at the Children's Film Festival in Venice.

The film starred Lyudmila Gurchenko as Rada, the goat, Mikhail Boyarsky as Titi Suru, the Wolf, Oleg Popov as the bear, Saveliy Kramarov as the wolf's nephew, George Mihaita as the donkey and Florian Pittiş as the parrot.

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