Studio "Pilot"

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

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...

Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka.

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.

Rubik wins the race on his crumbling clunker, which he pushed to the finish line. The cube loses and kills its new car.

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.

A man rows to a tropical island where he sets up shop to sell to the natives. After overcoming resistance from the local witch doctor, the trader sells his goods, then rows away. But the trader's business brings a surprising benefit to the animals on the island.

A story about the life of St. Basil the Blessed.

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.

A bug's life. Animated short by Mikhail Aldashin

The Moksha fairy tale "Kuygorozh" takes viewers to Mordovia. The main character is an unclean named Kuygorozh, a hybrid of an owl and a snake, one of the strangest characters in folk legends. A workaholic, he constantly demands work from his employers and does everything for them. Of course, every lazy person dreams of such an assistant. There are two of them in the film – an old Man and an Old Woman. Having obtained an egg with a Kuygor, they began to live a new life, but the joy of greedy idlers was short-lived.

A fairy tale about how a village boy, stubborn Vanya, married Princess Mary, helped three old men to divide things, and Tsarevich Vasily to marry Elena the Beautiful.

A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults.

A tale about two hunters who seek the love of a beautiful girl. During a dangerous journey, everyone must show their best qualities. As it should be in a fairy tale, in this rivalry, courage, generosity, responsiveness prevail over cowardice, stupidity and greed. The girl chooses the worthy one, and the unworthy one bears the deserved punishment.

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...

Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.

When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to.

Moldovan fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about a fearless hero named Basil Fat-Frumos.

An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.