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An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
A fairy tale about the friendship of a Breeze and a Baker.
Combining staged scenes, newsreel footage, and documentary episodes, the history of the development of sports is presented, showing the stadiums of Moscow, Philadelphia, Stockholm and Mexico City in the past and future.
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A little tractor arrives on a farm but can't do any of the things that the farm animals are good at.
Experimental animation based on Pablo Neruda' life and poems.
Puppet animated folk tale about an old lady who finds a ball of yarn. After picking it the ball changes into a little dog, which has the magical power to be crocheted into anything the old lady fantasizes.
Based on the story "The Truth About Pycraft" by H.G. Wells.
The story of how a Crocodile appears in Petrograd and frightens the inhabitants of the city. The little boy Vanya Vasilchikov is not afraid of him. The crocodile turns out to be not scary and makes friends with Vanya.
A whole city waits for a young man to finally propose to his beloved. Based on Soviet Jewish writer Ovsey Driz's story "The Plaza of Hats".
In one of the quiet cozy alleys of old Moscow lives a talented puppet master. He has a faithful friend Christopher, a son Kuzya and a lot of dolls. Unexpectedly, a sweet and gentle girl, Viktosha, appears in the house, whom both father and son, and even the dolls, have fallen in love with.
The film is based on the humorous story of the English writer Evelyn Waugh “On Guard,” which talks about fidelity, devotion, and love. The bearer of these human qualities in the film is a dog named Hector.
Little tiger Petrik was coward, so he has lost his stripes as a punishment. But when his mother has taken sick, Petrik has shown his courage and deserved his stripes back.
The boy offended his mother and great colds came on the earth. And only when the boy realized his guilt and asked for forgiveness, everything bloomed again.
In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to Bolshevism or national self-determination. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.
The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizinova from Moscow station to arrive from Moscow. Chekhov is alarmed by the upcoming premiere, excited by the meeting with love, which never took place. Memories of acquaintance with Lika, of the experiences caused by the rude scolding of newspaper men who predicted the young writer the inglorious "death under the fence", about the unexpected decision for everyone to go to Sakhalin...
