Loved the film
I found this on the IFC channel a few years back for my husband, not knowing it was a classic. He saw it while growing up in Latvia (then under Soviet control). It's very cute. We like the part when Yozhik calls the owl a psycho and the subtitle says "what a weirdo."
We just named our new kitten Yozhik. He's solid gray - looks like a little hedgehog.
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