This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Russian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of consciousness style, the film depicts the deceitful relationship between a master and his two servants. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
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 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.
Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement
An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.
Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka.
Two babies are in dire need of pacification.
An empty pot fell from a peasant's cart, and a Fly settled in that pot. After that, the Creeping Louse, the Flea, and the Long-Legged Mosquito pulled up, and then the larger guests arrived...
The story of the Bashkir youth Yulybai, who defeated the evil Khan.
The film is about the paradoxical nature of everyday life.
A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
It's not easy for a rabbit to live – then a hunter tries to shoot with a gun, then a bear attacks, then a wolf threatens to eat, then a fox. How to survive in the tundra, how not to disappear in this not very hospitable region? The poor hare is like between two fires – he barely has time to hide from the hunter, as predatory animals immediately overtake him…
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.
The story of how the cheating raven was repaid in the same coin, and he suffered from his own greed.
A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.
The pilots decided to spend time fishing in the vicinity of Berdichev.
The wolf, the fox and the tiger seized power in the forest, literally ravaging the land in their hungry greed. The unfortunate hares that remained alive for the time being offered the big animals a "social contract": the rabbits themselves come to be eaten, and for that the wolf, fox and tiger will not hunt them.
A thriller fairy tale about a boorish miller's family, whose greedy wife paid for the crime committed. But everything ended well.
