Zhenya

Zhenya was a fictional female character featured in Cvetik semicvetik (The Flower of Seven Colors, Russia, 1948). Based on a Soviet-era fairy tale by Valentin Kataev, the cartoon follows the adventures of a precocious little girl granted seven wishes by a kindly old babushka. The heroine's improbably brief dress allows the audience a generous of her snowy white panties on several occasions.

The story was adopted into animated form by Michael Tsekhanovsky (director), making extensive use of both rotoscope and traditional cell animation. While generally unknown to Western audiences, the cartoon is a perennial favorite with Russian audiences to the present day.

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