
Mikhail Aldashin
Directing
Biography
Mikhail Vladimirovich Aldashin (Russian: Михаил Владимирович Алдашин; born November 4, 1958; Tuapse) is a Soviet and Russian animation director, artist, producer. Member of the jury of the American Film Academy. Honored Artist of Russia (2022).
Known For

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.
What a Cartoon!

Mike, Lu, & Og features a spunky, red-haired girl named Mike, a stuck-up island princess named Lu and her cousin Og, a scientific genius.
Mike, Lu & Og

Fairytales of nations of Russia
Mountain of Gems

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...
Cheburashka
An anthology of four 1980's short films from Sweden, Denmark and the former Soviet Union.
Skorstensspöket och andra läskigheter

The history of Russian animated films.
Miracle Factory. Animation Director

A mere sight of a gray wolf terrifies the entire village. There’s just one little girl who can empathize with the wolf and even make friends with him.
Moroshka

An elevator stops at five floors, each floor revealing a different animation sequence by a different director.
Lift

Masha is eight years old, and she really wants her parents to take her to a fun New Year’s party. But instead, they send Masha off to celebrate the New Year with her grandmother.
Merry Grandmas!

One day the princess fell in love with a bandit... and what did it lead to. A film based on the poem by Galina Dyadina.
The Princess and the Bandit

A story about a little elephant with a very long trunk.
Trunky

Yuriy Norshteyn, Russia’s most renowned animator, has crafted many brilliant works, including his award-winning Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in the Fog. He is revered by animation creators across the globe, most notably Japanese masters Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Forty years ago, Norshteyn began work on an ambitious adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat, but after completing 25 minutes of the film, the project stalled and has been shelved for many years. A crew visits Norshteyn’s studio and finds there mountains of sketches, character studies and a shooting table covered with dust. Norshteyn himself talks about its current status and the anguish and passion that has gone into its creation.
Yuriy Norshteyn: Making the Overcoat

How do insects and bugs live? Both good and bad. They even tried to fly away from people into space, so people got them.
Bugs
The story of a love affair. Based on a poem by Edward Lear about the antipodes.
Duck and Kangaroo

The life story of one ball.
Ball

A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess.
About Ivan-the-Fool

Two young girls meet a flute-playing monster while gathering food.
Kele

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.
Neighbours

Dear passengers! The express train number 72 departs from the second platform of the first track. The train started moving…
Dear Passengers

Volume 4 (1986-1991): "Door", "Boy Is a Boy", "Liberated Don Quixote", "Martinko", "Big Underground Ball", "Cat and Clown", "Dream", "Kele", "Alter Ego", "Girlfriend", "Croak x Croak", "Cat and Company".