History Animation / MavkaTheForestSong

* HumansAreBastards: The opinion all the {{Nature Spirit}}s hold bar Mavka, due to her bonding with Lukash. That's the reason she is chosen as the next Guardian, to bridge humans and nature spirits.

* BearTrap: Mavka rescues a lynx cub from an old bear trap.

* BearTrap: Mavka rescues a lynx cub from an old bear trap she forgot to remove when she had to clean up the old battlefields where Leshy once incinerated human enemies.

''Mavka: The Forest Song'' (''Mавка. Лісова пісня'' -- ''Mavka. Lisova pisnya'') is a 2023 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] {{Fantasy}} / FairyTale film made by the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian studio Animagrad (which previously made ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/ The Stolen Princess]]''). It is inspired by ''The Forest Song'', a Myth/SlavicMythology-based poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka, one of the earliest examples of fantasy in Ukrainian literature.

''Mavka: The Forest Song'' (''Mавка. Лісова пісня'' -- ''Mavka. Lisova pisnya'') is a 2023 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] {{Fantasy}} / FairyTale film made by the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian studio Animagrad (which previously made ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/ The Stolen Princess]]''). It is inspired by ''The Forest Song'', a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka, one of the earliest examples of fantasy in Ukrainian literature that borrowed from Myth/SlavicMythology.

''Mavka: The Forest Song'' (''Mавка. Лісова пісня'' -- ''Mavka. Lisova pisnya'') is a 2023 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] {{Fantasy}} / FairyTale film made by the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian studio Animagrad (which previously made ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/ The Stolen Princess]]''). It is a loose adaptation of ''The Forest Song'', a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka, one of the earliest examples of fantasy in Ukrainian literature that borrowed from Myth/SlavicMythology.

* PeekABangs: Frol's hair cover one of his eyes, which illustrates how vain and foppish he is.

* FurAndLoathing: Frol wears a fox's skin as a fur scarf, he serves the BigBad Kylina and he nearly kills Lukash's dog and the cat-frog with a chainsaw late in the film.

* CampStraight: Kylina's assistant Frol is very flamboyant, foppish and fashion-obsessed, and he has PeekABangs when no one else in the film has.

* BearTrap: Mavka rescues a lynx cub from an old bear trap she forgot to remove when she had to clean up the old battlefields where the Guardian incinerated human enemies.

* NatureHero: Mavka is the film's main protagonist and a soul of the forest.

''Mavka: The Forest Song'' (''Mавка. Лісова пісня'' -- ''Mavka. Lisova pisnya'') is a 2023 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] {{Fantasy}} / FairyTale film made by the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian studio Animagrad (which previously made ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/ The Stolen Princess]]''). It is an adaptation of ''The Forest Song'', a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka, one of the earliest example of fantasy in Ukrainian literature that borrowed to Myth/SlavicMythology.

Taking place in a fantastical version of Ukraine, the story is about Mavka, the gentle humanoid soul of the forest, who faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as new Guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human, the talented young musician Lukash, and when the evil woodswoman Kylina is seeking to destroy the forest and find a mysterious source in its heart.

* CampStraight: Kylina's assistant Frol is very flamboyant, foppish and fashion-obsessed, and he has PeekABangs when no-one else in the film has.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kylina, at the end. [[spoiler: She reaches the FountainOfYouth in the Heart of the Forest and bathes entirely in it... which makes her regress to baby stage. There's a reason only small quantities of the liquid are enough for her and Lukash's uncle early on.]]

* ElementalEyeColors: Mavka has green eyes since she is the soul of the forest, Ondina has blue eyes matching her elements (bodies of water) etc.

* FurAndLoathing: Frol wears a fox's skin as fur scarf, he serves the BigBad Kylina and he nearly kills Lukash's dog and the cat-frog with a chainsaw late in the film.

* LoveRedeems: The big henchman of Kylina who has a crush on Ondina saves the latter from the storm [[spoiler:Mavka]] causes after becoming fiery and stops serving Kylina afterwards.

* NatureHero: Mavka is the film's main protagonist and a the soul of the forest.

* OurNymphsAreDifferent: Among the nature spirits, there are two nymph-like women, one of which, Ondina, watches over rivers and other water places and lures one of Kylina's two big henchmen in a pond to drown, until he regains his senses and flees (yet he still harbors a crush on her afterwards). Both nymphs mock Mavka for not being as willing to fight humans as they are.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Mavka is beautiful to begin with, although when disguising as a human she looks about as fashionable as a scarecrow. Later at the festival when she dons a vyshyvanka and a red skirt and styles her hair in a braid, she becomes the loveliest girl in the village.

* CockyRooster: The rooster of the farm of Lukash and his uncle seems to really hate Frol and attacks him any chance he gets, possibly seeing a rival in him due to how flamboyantly dressed Frol is rather than a mere intruder.

* {{Treants}}: There are several humanoid sentient trees, the most prominent being Leshy, the Guardian of the Heart of the Forest (he's partly made of rocks as well). Feeling like he won't be able to be the Guardian for very long, Leshy [[PassingOfTheTorch passes the torch]] to Mavka.

* OurSirensAreDifferent: Ondina is a nymph who watches over bodies of water. Early on she lures one of Kylina's two henchmen into a swamp pool to either drown or scare him and he's initially too enthralled to notice, until a human skull emerges from the water and his pants get dissolved, freeing him from the charm and making him run away (he still harbors a crush on her afterwards).

''Mavka: The Forest Song'' (''Mавка. Лісова пісня'' -- ''Mavka. Lisova pisnya'') is a 2023 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] {{Fantasy}} / FairyTale film made by the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian studio Animagrad (which previously made ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/ The Stolen Princess]]''). It is an adaptation of ''The Forest Song'', a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka, one of the earliest example of fantasy in Ukrainian literature that was based off Myth/SlavicMythology.

''Mavka: The Forest Song'' (''Mавка. Лісова пісня'' -- ''Mavka. Lisova pisnya'') is a 2023 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] {{Fantasy}} / FairyTale film made by the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian studio Animagrad (which previously made ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/ The Stolen Princess]]''). It is an adaptation of ''The Forest Song'', a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka, one of the earliest example of fantasy in Ukrainian literature.

* NiceGuy: Lukash is a gentle young man who dreams of being a famous musician, and he only accepts to work for Kylina because he needs money to tend to his sick uncle.

* StockCostumeTraits: The villagers all wear vyshyvankas, traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Mavka is beautiful to begin with, although when disguising as a human she looks about as fashionable as a scarecrow. Later at the festival when she dons a vyshyvanka and a red skirt, she becomes the loveliest girl in the village.

* AnimalStampede: An shot of the blunderbuss of Kylina's two big henchmen causes a herd of buffalos to nervously run. Mavka jumps on one of them and calms them down when they head towards a cliff, causing them to swerve at the last moment before the cliff.

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