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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 brothers woke up in the morning in the city of Berdichev and began to prepare breakfast, without looking up from their usual business and cheerful conversations.
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 small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
In the big theater hall, Kolobki, Karbofos and striped elephant are shooting a video for a song by the band U-Free - Black Merce.
Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement
An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.
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.
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.
Two babies are in dire need of pacification.
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 tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.
A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess.
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.
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.
