The film based on the book by Eduard Uspensky "Crocodile Gena and his friends". Crocodile Gena works in a zoo - a crocodile. Every evening he returns home to his lonely apartment. Finally he tired of playing with himself in chess, and Gene decides to make friends. On the ads pasted around the city, responding animals and people. First comes a girl with a homeless puppy Gal, followed by the Cheburashka...
The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.
This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Russian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of consciousness style, the film depicts the deceitful relationship between a master and his two servants. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.
Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.
An eight-minute Russian animation directed by Andrey Svislotskiy of Pilot Animation Studio LOOSELY based on the novel Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus.
A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so ... until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society.
A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.
Two babies are in dire need of pacification.
A bug's life. Animated short by Mikhail Aldashin
Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.
The pilots decided to spend time fishing in the vicinity of Berdichev.
The brothers woke up in the morning in the city of Berdichev and began to prepare breakfast, without looking up from their usual business and cheerful conversations.
A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.
A simple life of simple creatures in a wonderful and awful world.
When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to.
Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.
An adaptation of the story by Seuss, of an elephant who could hear the voices of little people even when nobody else could.
