Duck Village. A Tale.
Duck Village. A Tale. is a 1976 Soviet family film about a girl named Olya who spends the summer with her grandmother in the village of Utka. Her grandmother tells her stories about shishki, mysterious creatures that some people think are devils. Curious, Olya soon meets Shishok, a kind shishka who lives in the grandmother’s house. They become friends and even dream of traveling to Scotland to visit Brownie, a Scottish brownie.
They have a travel device that also doubles as a washing machine, but it breaks when Shishok removes its only nail. When summer ends, Olya’s uncle plans to take the grandmother back to the city, but she chooses to stay in the village. Shishok travels with Olya to the city and hides in the apartment because there’s no attic. On the last day of summer they meet Brownie in a park during a gathering about unexplained phenomena. They also visit a neighbor professor who denies the existence of shishki but is himself one. In the end Shishok stays with Olya’s grandmother in the village.
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