Leonid Aristov

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.

Based on the work of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.

The sorceress decides to teach the princess a lesson, who played an evil joke on her. Cartoon based on an Italian fairy tale.

Yanko and Olesya are looking for the Wind, on which their harvest depends.

After getting lost in the street, a dog is adopted by a kindly clown.

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

Animated adaptation of a Ukrainian folk tale. Forest thieves — a bear cub, a hare, and a fox — keep sneaking onto a grandfather’s homestead, causing trouble for him and his granddaughter. To teach the little bandits a lesson, the grandfather builds a straw bull and covers its sides with tar. He sets the bull out on a clearing. The curious thieves gather around the strange creature, and one by one get stuck to its sticky, tar-covered sides…

To surprise his grandmother, the boy climbs into someone else's garden.

How the love of music made the wolf and the goats friends.

Based on the fairytales of the North Russia.

The story is about a little deer who wants to be brave and an older deer who says "Bud'!".

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Stop-motion animated short about an old, greedy, cunning king who found out that in distant lands there lives a beautiful girl with golden hair named Goldilocks, who certainly isn't aware of his negative fame. The king had the opportunity to gain the magical ability to understand the language of birds and animals, by eating a magic fish. However, it turned out that his servant also tasted a piece of the fish and received the same skill as the king. It was then that the decision was made to send the servant on a search for Goldilocks, to bring her to marry the old king, after completing three tasks.

After graduating from school, Seva Losev gets a job at a chemical plant. A lyrical film about the first experiences of independent life and first love.

The tale of a tree frog that helped people cope with the drought.

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An animated film for younger audiences about chickens and a duckling who outsmarted a cunning fox.

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A puppet cartoon about how animals taught a lesson to an evil wolf who couldn't read.

Puppet animated film, an adaptation of the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov. Dacha resident Vykhodtsev receives a note from a mysterious stranger inviting him to meet in the gazebo. Hesitant, he goes to the rendezvous, where he encounters student Mitya, who received the same invitation. A quarrel ensues. Vykhodtsev’s wife, who appears, explains that it was a joke designed to get the men out of the house while the floors were being washed.