The Thread and the Kitten

Feb 5, 1974

0h 10m

★ 0.0

Overview

Late at night, when all household members had gone to bed, a kitten woke up and felt that it overcohasmes insomnia. How to have fun? The playful kid went to investigate. It turned out that coiled balls of yarn did not sleep too, and there was a sky-blue thread, cheerful and kind, which, like the kitten, wanted to play. Will they make friends with the kitten?

Genres

Animation

Family

Production Companies

Kyivnaukfilm

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Cast

(voice)

Liudmyla Ihnatenko

(voice)

Nina Trofimova

(voice)

Volodymyr Korshun

(voice)

Yurii Samsonov

(voice)

Vitalii Derkach

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