Valentin Olshvang

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 demon, sick of sin's monotony, asks a priest for instructions on how to become good. Based on the motives of L. Andreev's story The Rules of Kindness.

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.

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.

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.

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

A fairy tale about how my Grandfather accidentally caught a Mermaid, warmed her on his stove, and what it led to.

The film adaptation of A. S. Pushkin's novel "The Queen of Spades". A secret pattern opens up before the hero, and he builds it into an idea. A case? A fairy tale? The answer is the price.

A serpent with wings and a human face kidnaps a girl before the wedding.