In 1937 there was the Soviet black-and-white animated film of sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation", from a film studio the "Soyuzmultfilm" executed in classical style. The plot differs from the original fairy tale a little. The animated film was issued on videotapes in different collections in the 1980th years in SECAM system, and in the 1990th — in PAL system in collections of animated films of a videostudio "Soyuz" (since 1994).
Also in the USSR based on the fairy tale in 1958 other animated film of the same studio by directors Boris Stepantsev and Evgeny Raykovsky under the name "Petya and Little Red Riding Hood" according to Vladimir Suteev's scenario was shot. On a plot, the main character boy Petya Ivanov incidentally gets to the animated film about the Little Red Riding Hood. Seeing as the Grey Wolf deceived the trustful girl, Petya, risking life, rescues the grandmother and the granddaughter from inevitable death, having arrived, as the real pioneer. Now the animated film is considered cult, many phrases became familiar, and in 1959 and 1960 was awarded at festivals in Kiev and Ansi. In Russia it is repeatedly republished on DVD in collections of animated films.
The story also serves as a metaphor for sexual awakening and depicts the rite of passage from puberty into womanhood. In Angela Carter's story "The Company of Wolves", published in 1979 in her collection The Bloody Chamber (adapted into a film by Neil Jordan in 1984), the wolf is in fact a werewolf, and comes to newly menstruating Red Riding Hood in the forest in the form of a charming hunter. He turns into a wolf and eats her grandmother, and is about to devour her as well, when she is equally seductive and ends up lying with the wolf man.[35] In Michelle Augello-Page's story "Wolf Moon",[36] Little Red is an adult who has been irrevocably changed by the events in her childhood, and it is the hunter who saves her "once upon a time, and again" in this tale of sexual...