Yuri Norstein Movies

This is a somewhat ironic, but very informative story about the origin, development and decline of the Greek Olympiad tradition, set out with the...

Surprising master Lefty, who grounded a steel flea. This feature-length cutout-animated film from the Soviet Union is based on the story of the same...

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping...

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films...

Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times...

Yuriy Norshteyn, Russia’s most renowned animator, has crafted many brilliant works, including his award-winning Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in...

A delicate stroll through the Russian wilderness at different times of the year.

The history of Russian animated films.

Soviet full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky, which includes all three pictures of the...

He's been called a 'wonderful troublemaker', 'comet man' and 'the last hippy of the pink city'. Robert Sahakyants was a renowned Soviet and Armenian...

About the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Julo Sooster and his work.

"Good Night, Little Ones!" is a Russian-language children's show created by Alexander Tatarsky & Eduard Uspensky that was first aired in 1964. This...

An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work.

The film tells us about the circus horse made of wooden balls who became the best actor in the circus. Yuri Norstein was it's sole animator. His...

In 1980, renowned Russian animators Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova began production on a beautiful stop-motion film called The Overcoat....

The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.

A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and...

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film “I walk through Moscow”. At this time, Shpalikov...