This puppet production carefully stages the script which was specifically written for puppetry by Sergey G. Kozlov, who is the author of ‘Hedgehog in Fog’, an animation film by the director Yuri B. Norstein.

Tomorrow is the New Year’s Eve, but the the Bear runs a high fever. His best friend Hedgehog heard the only medicine to cure him is the Flower of Happiness and rushes out into the snowy forest, only to find no luck. ‘I might die as well’ The desperate Hedgehog…

Fantastic and beautiful, this simple and heartwarming story in a Russian forest is told with one-hand puppets which has the warmth of a puppeteers’ hand inside.