Yuri Norstein Movies

A geologist boy enters the underworld of the gnomes. Puppet cartoon about the magical properties of precious stones.

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

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian...

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

The history of Russian animated films.

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

There was a priest in the village and he had a dog. The priest owned a big shed in which he kept a huge amount of meat. The dog guarded this shed...

A priest engages in a scam claiming a water burst is holy.

The fate of sailors' wives is not easy. For six months they do not see their husbands, for six months they raise their children and wait for news...

Once upon a time there lived a poor fisherman in a dilapidated dugout on the seashore. He went to the sea on a boat, he was fishing. And once he...

About a little rain that did not immediately learn to benefit people and plants.

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...

A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I...

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...

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed...

About the attitude of children towards elderly people and about a magic umbrella which changed the ordinary world into a fairy tale.

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

The life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St....

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