Alexey Karaev

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 friendly moose lets an insect hitch a ride on his antlers. But the moose is soon taken advantage of, as more and more forest creatures (including a bear!) take up residence in his antlers. How can the moose get rid of these unwanted guests? Based on a Dr. Seuss story.

An animated short-form adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" by Alexei Karaev.

A careless mother is going on a date with another fan and, in order to brighten up her daughter's loneliness, leaves her alone with a pink doll - the same doll that "wanders around the city and why it is vain to destroy little children". The girl considers the doll to be very realistic, therefore she associates it with herself, and herself with her mother. So begin the serious experiences of a girl who understands that this doll bought off her. At night, the girl dreams a terrible dream in which the doll embodies all her fears... "Pink Doll" creates the illusion of a spellbound fall into the abyss of children's dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The sensual effect is achieved by the game of scale and angle, the nervous rhythm of intraframe movement and graphic thickening of reality.

Based on a short story Konstantin Paustovsky, Alexey Karaev uses a paint-on-glass animation technique to tell the story of those that pass the days in an old house.

Hand-drawn cartoon of 1985, which was created by director Oksana Cherkasova based on Chukchi fairy tales at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio by order of the USSR State Television and Radio.

A man from the city arrives at the village to the house his grandmother Nyura. He didn't like his grandmother's inheritance, so Nyura's friend decides to teach her grandson a lesson and invites the house spirits Akulka and Dunyka. At night, they sing and dance, turning the house upside down, so that the heir remembers his childhood and comes to his senses.

An adaptation of the story by Seuss, of an elephant who could hear the voices of little people even when nobody else could.

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No one will argue that fashion is a terrible force. But it’s bad when people follow it blindly, turning their appearance into a cult.

The animated film is based on a poem by the Ossetian poet Kosta Khetagurova. In a joking form, it tells how the hero of the film outwitted his very bad habit and life in the village improved.

Pulkin brings heavy artillery to a fight with a minuscule annoyance.

Based on Chukchi fairy-tales. A gosling is born without wings after spending too much time sleeping in his egg.

The animated film “Blue Pants” is based on the poem by Dr. Syuz “What am I afraid of?The film tells in a light and playful way about what can happen if you don't take care of your things.

The crew discover some tasty foodstuffs in the rubble of a victorious campaign.

This bright and comic tale is famed as the only play written by Shakespeare in which he is known to have appeared himself - playing Adam, the old retainer to the hero Orlando. The sunniest of his comedies, the play tells of a group of courtiers escaping to the Forest of Arden where they meet, philosophise and fall in love.

New cartoon by Alexey Karaev and Diana Khayrullina (Snega Film Company).