Russian

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.Read More »

Inventive children save the Snow Maiden from Kashchey.

They are so different – elementary school students Vitya, who believes only in technology, and Masha, who believes in miracles. Together with other guys, they decorate the Christmas tree, but Santa Claus told them that the Snow Maiden was kidnapped by Kashchei in order to arrange the New Year for his evil spirits. Masha and Vitya, with the help of Santa Claus, go to a fairy tale to help the Snow Maiden.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 »

Konets Veka is another Konstantin Lopushansky fantasy parable with the elements of a mystic thriller. The story takes place in Moscow in the autumn of 1993, during a strike; the army is assaulting the parliament, and Marina Nikolayevna and her daughter Olga have found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. Six years later, Olga feels sorry for her mother and decides to invite her to Germany to have her treated at a mental hospital by a perverted doctor who promises to cure her. Olga’s mother, however, cannot shake the memory of her husband, who died in 1993 during the strike in Moscow.Read More »

When Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies.Read More »

The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.Read More »

Young scientist Vladimir Bantikov (Nikolai Fyodortsov) from the Institute for Intractable Problems is working on a rainbow formula. In order not to be distracted by numerous unnecessary and boring meetings, he creates his twin – the robot Yashu.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 »

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.Read More »