Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Rikki is a young mongoose. Swept into a river in a storm and close to drowning, he is found by a family who take him in. He returns the favour by protecting them from two cobras. The story is set in the forests of India. The forester Robert Lawson and his son Teddy make up the human side of the account. The film is adapted from the story of the same name by Rudyard Kipling. Real footage of animals is set inside the account throughout the shoot. The work is a joint effort of the Soviet Union and India. The music was composed by Alfred Schnittke. Margarita Terekhova and Aleksey Batalov are also in the cast. Aleksandr Zguridi’s seventy one minute film was completed in 1976.