History Animation / TheKey

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted when the boy grows up to be a toddler where his oversized shirt became too small to obscure his bottom, he is drawn with the anatomy to boot.

* ThatRussianSquatDance: During the fairies' and the parents' dance celebration, the husband is briefly seen doing this, a variety of it at least. What's amazing is it actually appears in a Russian film, meaning that it's possibly played seriously rather than for show than most examples. Apparently, every Russian man can do this.
* TinCanRobot: The scientist's robots all look like this.
* TragicDream: The poetic robot's plight. He tried to show his talent to the world, but people supposedly dissed him because he was just a machine, based on his rhythmic recap. [[spoiler: He was so down, he was later seen in a bar, getting drunk with another poet]].

* TheHedonist: The grandfather tries hard to avert this from happening to his grandson. Especially now when he discovered what the Land of Happiness looks like and what becomes of anybody who goes there. The inhabitants actually count as this [[spoiler: since the children in there really do ''nothing'' at all. And since they grow up so fast, they simply reach their old age without having gone through life's struggles]].

* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[spoiler: The Land of Happiness, as discovered by the grandfather. The 'saccharine' part being literal to the fact that the land is sticky with candy and the river runs milk. While it's not an outright terrible place, the concept of having children stripped off of any sort of work experience and ambition is appropriate enough that it fills in the 'crap' part]].

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The poetic robot develops a mind of its own and runs away to show his talent to the world. [[spoiler: He is brought back inebriated, for some reason, drinking too much oil.]]

* PostModernism: Enforced, when the mother comments on a painting of a swan in a lake a fairy magically created as wall decor that it is no longer trendy. So the fairy turns it into a more abstract piece, with simplified random shapes scattered about and a giant eye added for good measure.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The poetic robot develops a mind of its own and runs away to show his talent to the world, as the scientist told his friend when he noticed that he has gone. [[spoiler: He was later brought back by a man after he was seen ''drunk'' in a bar with another writer. How he got "drunk" at all by just oiling his neck because he's a robot and is probably not allowed to drink liquids is anyone's guess]].

* [[spoiler: StepfordSuburbia]]: The grandfather manages to reach the "door" to the Land of Happiness after the scientist manages to create an exact replica of the red ball. The many fairies in charge of the land lead him to a tour [[spoiler: in which he sees children in school but not exactly going to them since it's a 'holiday' (and the school merely exists just for them to point out that there are no holidays if there are no schools to justify it), eventually leading to their graduation ball, and lastly after falling in love, are set to sit in rocking chairs at their old age with only cats to company them for the rest of their life. Naturally, the grandfather is horrified and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away]] with the fairies telling him "[he] can't run away from happiness"]]. This prompts him more to stop his grandson from going there as [[ProperlyParanoid he was right all along with his fears]].

* EasyComeEasyGo: Part of the recurring theme of the movie. First, since the fairies have sped up his growth (saying he will grow by "hours, not days"), his parents have already got to let him go, with his red ball of string to lead him to the land of happiness. Later, when the boy reaches the doors and discovered that it's locked (courtesy of his grandfather's plan), a fairy tells him to go to the Kingdom of Quick Feats and Easy Victories, where he can obtain a key that can open any lock. You can see where it goes from there as he does manage to get it after going through three obstacles in which he barely had to try to conquer, and when he finally got the key and used it on the lock, [[EpicFail it snaps in half]], leaving the boy upset and crying. Then a fairy (which is actually the robot girl [[PaperThinDisguise in disguise]]) appears to him and tells him that the only way to open it is to use a key he made himself, and first going to the master craftsman who made the lock. Doing as told, he meets his grandfather who has to show him the ropes in using the tools and making the key. It's implied that he had to go through many slip ups and time had passed before successfully making the key himself. Unfortunately, this reminded him to try and open the lock now and leaves the grandfather. [[spoiler: Whether the key actually opened the lock or not was never found out since he came back to him shortly afterwards]].

* TheTheTitle: What the title becomes, when translated to English. In Russian, it's simply called ''[[OneWordTitle Klyuch]]''.

* RhymesOnADime: [[CaptainObvious The poetic robot]], of course, as it is programmed to do so. Subverted when [[spoiler: he got drunk and loses the rhyming, as after he was told off by the robot girl, he simply told her to leave him alone, and it was none of her business]].

'''''The Key''''' (Russian: '''''Ключ'''''; ''Klyuch'') is a 1961 [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] animated film, directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced at the Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} studio in Moscow.

'''''The Key''''' (Russian: '''''Ключ'''''; ''Klyuch'') is a 1961 [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] animated film, directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced at the {{Soyuzmultfilm}} studio in Moscow.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The poetic robot develops a mind of its own and runs away to show his talent to the world, as the scientist told his friend when he noticed that he has gone. [[spoiler: He was later brought back by the police after he was seen ''drunk'' in a bar with another writer. How he got "drunk" at all by just oiling his neck because he's a robot and is probably not allowed to drink liquids is anyone's guess]].

'''''The Key''''' (Russian: '''''Ключ'''''; ''Klyuch'') is a 1961 [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] animated film, produced at the {{Soyuzmultfilm}} studio in Moscow.

A father comes home from the store with presents for his newborn son. Upon arriving, three fairies visit them and gives the family a ball of yarn, which is said that it will lead him to the "door of happiness". His grandfather visits and gives him tools that he could use later in life but the fairies and the parents refuse as they said that his happiness had already been planned. Not liking the idea of having "ready-made happiness" out of fear of his grandson's future, he attempted to throw the present out the window only to be sent back to his apartment as a sheet of paper. He later escapes and decides to seek help.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The grandfather is portrayed in the first few minutes as a FantasyForbiddingFather of sorts, with planning to throw out right away the magic red ball of yarn the fairies gave him, though he was really just concerned for his grandson's outcome because he thinks that no one should be granted ready-made happiness. Especially not the Land of Happiness where the boy was to go to, [[CrapsaccharineWorld not after the things he had just seen back there]]...

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The grandfather is portrayed in the first few minutes as a FantasyForebiddingFather of sorts, with planning to throw out right away the magic red ball of yarn the fairies gave him, though he was really just concerned for his grandson's outcome because he thinks that no one should be granted ready-made happiness. Especially not the Land of Happiness where the boy was to go to, [[CrapsaccharineWorld not after the things he had just seen back there]]...

* HenpeckedHusband: The husband to a natch. The moment he comes to the door, he's completely ran over by his wife back home.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The poet robot develops a mind of its own and runs away to show his talent to the world, as the scientist told his friend when he noticed that he has gone. [[spoiler: He was later brought back by the police after he was seen ''drunk'' in a bar with another writer]].

* ThatRussianSquatDance: During the fairies' and the parents' dance celebration, the husband is briefly seen doing this. What's amazing is it actually appears in a Russian film, meaning that it's possibly played seriously rather than for show than most examples. Apparently, every Russian man can do this.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[spoiler: The Land of Happiness, as discovered by the grandfather. The 'saccharine' part being literal to the fact that the land is sticky with candy and the river runs milk. While it's not an outright terrible place, the concept of having children stripped off of any sort of work experience and ambition is appropriate enough that it fills in the 'crap' part.

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* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Fairies sent to make sure a child can live a happy life by giving them a present (in this case, a red ball of yarn/string) that would them to it, setting them for life.

* [{[Widget}}: From the short block of text above that summarizes the film, the fairies alone might be the first clue how oddly fantastical the movie will get. But one might've never expected the robots, [[CrapsaccharineWorld the questionably idyllic lands]] and the kingdom guarded by a four-headed dragon.

'''''The Key''''' (Russian: '''Ключ'''; ''Klyuch'') is a 1961 [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] animated film, produced at the {{Soyuzmultfilm}} studio in Moscow.

* SpoiledBrat: The boy grows up to be this because of the parents'

* {{WART}}: From the short block of text above that summarizes the film, the fairies alone might be the first clue how oddly fantastical the movie will get. But one might've never expected the robots, [[CrapsaccharineWorld the questionably idyllic lands]] and the kingdom guarded by a four-headed dragon.

'''''The Key''''' (Russian: '''Ключ'''; ''Klyuch'') is a 1961 [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] animated film, produced at the {{Soyuzmultifilm}} studio in Moscow.