Pyotr Frolov
Writing
Known For
A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure. 1968-69 was a crucial period of transition for the animator, breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and co-direct films. Not listed on imdb, this is one - if not the first - of his first solo works as director.
Children and Matches
The little bear cannot fall asleep in winter and walks through the forest.
Sure Remedy
A poor old couple adopts a tiny boy who helps them with farming and housekeeping. One day a greedy nobleman passes by, and so the boy decides to make some easy money for his new parents.
Tom Thumb
Children help Soviet ships find their way to the bay captured by the Germans.
The Legend About the Old Lighthouse
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The Gray-Haired Bear
Many centuries ago, on the southwest coast of India, in Travancore, the art of kathakali dance arose, the most important place in which gestures occupy.
Talking Hands of Travancore
The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep.
Sea Voyage of Solnyshkin
There lived in one yard four friends: a kitten, a puppy, a goat and a small chicken. But only they always cursed because their things somehow disappeared. The kitten lost milk from the bowl, the puppy lost his bone, the kid lost a carrot, and the chicken, almost had hardly been eaten. But one day the friends accidentally found a rat-thief, who they then all together amicably caught in a mousetrap and she paid for her theft.
Four from the Same Yard
The Tortoise composed a song and the Lion cub learnt it by heart and they sang it together.
How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song
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Жёлтик
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Treasures of the Sunken Ships
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The Goatling
The peasant sends his sons in search of rejuvenating apples. The eldest sons go to a tavern, and the youngest, with the help of a Gray Wolf, gets apples for his father and marries a beautiful Blue-eyed woman.
Rejuvenating Apples
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On the Forest Trail
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The Fox, the Bear and the Motorcycle with a Side Car
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The Lessons of Our Ancestors
Children end up in Ancient Greece, where they learn the laws of physics from Archimedes.
Kolya, Olya and Archimedes
The adventures of Russian souvenirs on the eve of the opening of the 1980 Olympics. The main character of the film is Misha the mascot who greets the guests of the Olympics together with his souvenir friends.
Where is the Little Bear?
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The Most Important
The story about an everyman who one morning suddenly leaps out on the courtyard and bludgeons two conversing housewives to death with a frying pan.