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...
A bug's life. Animated short by Mikhail Aldashin
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 goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.
The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.
This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Ukrainian 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.
The story is about two fishermen who happened to be in the same boat.
A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess.
An eight-minute Russian animation directed by Andrey Svislotskiy of Pilot Animation Studio LOOSELY based on the novel Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus.
An ironic and romantic story of the incredible adventures of the famous Russian inventor.
Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka.
The story is about a little dog who drove a greedy clerk out of the village.
The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society.
The sound of a soaring violin emanating from a neighbour's apartment turns one man's world upside down as he crashes and glides through a new life, which, it seems, he is condemned to spend living on the ceiling.
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.
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.
The pilots decided to spend time fishing in the vicinity of Berdichev.
Based on a German fairy tale about how two wizards - benevolent and sullen - made a bet: which of them will be able to make the same person happy or unhappy faster.
Once upon a time there was a husband and wife in the same village. The wife was a wayward woman, one might even say stubborn. Whatever her husband says, she does the opposite.
The cartoon tells that with mutual assistance, friendship and consent, it is possible to return the Sun and Moon to the sky, distribute the control of morning and evening light between them.
