Yuri Norstein Movies

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...

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

Alder uncovers not only the life and works of the elusive Cold War soviet master, but also sheds light on the Soviet animation regime.

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

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

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

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

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.

The history of Russian animated films.

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

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...

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

A short documentary about the life and career of cinematographer Georgy Rerberg.

6 Films of legendary russian animation master Yuriy Norshteyn are now fully 2K restored in Steelbook! Blu-ray&DVD

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...

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...

A poetic novel for adults about the love of a mother to her child and how she always worries for him.