A minor character from a collection of marionettes takes viewers through a small world theatre where they come across various types, including the seducer, the demagogue and the obedient masses.
Ambitious puppet animation with a didactic and political purpose against propaganda methods.Read More »
The Adventures of Mowgli is an animated feature-length story originally released as five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each between 1967 and 1971 in the Soviet Union. It is based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. They were directed by Roman Davydov and made by Soyuzmultfilm studio. In 1973, the five films were combined into a single 96-minute feature film.Read More »
A tanker truck is blown to smithereens in the middle of a busy street, and a deadly viral infection is released with the explosion. The Bebop crew – Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, and Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV – are instantly after the culprit when the gargantuan reward of 300,000,000 woolongs is announced. But the case gets stranger and stranger as the cold-blooded Vincent Volaju, who supposedly has been dead for ten years, seems to be the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Spike encounters the dangerous Electra, who too seeks the madman. Conspiracies and secrets better left alone are uncovered, and Vincent’s reign or terror is nowhere near over yet..Read More »
Clare Kitson in “Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator’s Journey” wrote:
Norstein’s workbook’ [трудовая книжка] (something like a car’s service book, recording developments throughout one’s working life) shows his promotions (and hence pay-rises) progressing at a snail’s pace. Yet in 1972, while still officially a humble ‘animator category 1’, he was commissioned to make his first fully independant film as director. By this time, the unwilling animator had had something of a change of heart and was now passionately aspiring to direct animation – partly out of frustration with some of the bad projects he had beeRead More »
Bristle is a little girl raised by dragons. But when her father, Dragon, has to pay the Sorcerog using his second most valuable asset, he offers her Bristle – Throwing her into an infinite sadness and forcing her to flee the family cave. Bristle then embarks on a journey to discover the world of men.Read More »
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The Heron and the Crane tells the story of two would-be lovers, Heron and Crane, whose pride and self-importance continually prevent them from accepting each other’s proposals of marriage, despite their desire for each other.Read More »
Vicenta lives with Laura, her 19-year-old daughter, who suffers from a developmental delay. Laura is pregnant, the product of rape by a family member. She is legally allowed to have an abortion, but the system will put all kinds of obstacles to make sure this doesn’t happen.Read More »
A riotous late-Soviet-era animated musical about the agonies of modern family life in the 20th century, taking place on New Year’s Eve. A postcard that gets put into the wrong mailbox, and a misunderstood lipstick mark, cause a married couple to trade accusations of infidelity that threaten to derail their holiday.Read More »
