Gagarin 1994
A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so ... until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so ... until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka.
Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.
The film based on the book by Eduard Uspensky "Crocodile Gena and his friends". Crocodile Gena works in a zoo - a crocodile. Every evening he returns home to his lonely apartment. Finally he tired of playing with himself in chess, and Gene decides to make friends. On the ads pasted around the city, responding animals and people. First comes a girl with a homeless puppy Gal, followed by the Cheburashka...
The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.
A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.
An ironic and romantic story of the incredible adventures of the famous Russian inventor.
An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.
In a strange house in the forest, three cheerful and hard-working goats accidentally got a harmful boy Cornflower.
A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess.
Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.
Moldovan fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about a fearless hero named Basil Fat-Frumos.
A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.
A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults.
The cat was chased out of the house by the owners, and the fox sheltered him and scared his friends with his new friend.
Nikita, a simple craftsman, is fighting the Gorynych Serpent.
A boy named Alik does not want to read the Torah. He asks his grandfather why this is necessary, and in response, his grandfather tells him a story...
An adaptation of the story by Seuss, of an elephant who could hear the voices of little people even when nobody else could.
How the bear and the hunter told each other fairy tales.