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- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKaruna BannerjeeShekhar ChatterjeeRanjit MallickRanjit cannot get a middle-class job just because he cannot get hold of a suit.
- DirectorJabbar PatelStarsSmita PatilGirish KarnadShrikant MogheAfter the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comfortable lifestyle with her two sons - Dr. Mohan and his wife, Maya; and Advocate Subhash Mahajan, his wife, Savitri, and their daughter, Rani. Savitri is unhappy as she wants a career for herself. She finally gets a chance to prove her skills in social services when she gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in distant Sangamwadi. Although Rani and Subhash as well as the rest of the family oppose her going, she has made up her mind. She arrives there and soon gets actively involved in the day to day activities of the institute, which is home to many women with a criminal background; who have been abused and beaten by their husbands; those who have been sexually assaulted; and even some with mental problems. After several months of her active involvement, Savitri is faced with a crisis when the Managing Committee, led by Chairperson Sheela Samson blames her for the death of two inmates, who set themselves on fire; her inability to get along with local businessmen; her rude comments to the local M.L.A., Bane; her interference in the personal lives of inmates. And to make matters the State Government appoints a one-man Commission to look into the problems of this institution. Savitri now has a choice - to resign and return home - to a family of virtual strangers; or stay and face the onslaught of charges that may be brought out against her.
- DirectorSubhash AgrawalStarsV.M. BadolaPankaj KapurReema LagooKishan Shah is a self-respecting, wise old man who has divided his property amongst his family and now lives with his youngest son, Ram Sharan. However he is not able to get along with him and his family for too long.
- DirectorManish JhaStarsTulip JoshiSudhir PandeySushant SinghA disturbing saga about male chauvinism and mistreatment of women in India.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiAnnu KapoorPankaj KapurSubhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
- DirectorPrakash JhaStarsBasant JosalkarSurekha SikriSudhir KulkarniBased on a folk-tale from Rajasthan, 'Parinati' deals with the inherent tragedy of human avarice, which must inevitably lead to self-destruction.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniStarsManoj BajpayeeVanya JoshiKishore KadamParmino is a small village in Central India, headed by a Village Committee comprising of all males. When the Government of India notifies the Committee that a third of them must be women, including people in schedules caste and tribes, the Sarpanch, Ratan Singh, decides to let women run for the election as well have seats in the Panchayat. After the meeting gets over, he asks his son, Inder, to get Manju, his wife, to sign the nomination papers. Also asked are the wife of another Panchayat member, as well as Vidya, the newly marred bride of a poor store owner, Bhanwar, who is indebted to Inder and Ratan Singh. In this way, Ratan and Inder hope to control the women through their respective husbands, and rule over the Panchayat as they have done before. They are in for a surprise when Vidya turns the tables on them, asking them to account where the funds for the partially built school were misappropriated as well having the rest of the village attend Gram Panchayat meetings and voice their concerns and grievances. Watch what happens when Ratan and Inder decide to use their influence in the community as well as over Bhanwar to throttle Vidya's voice.
- DirectorK.P. SasiStarsNandita DasRajit KapoorAnupam KherAparna, who is afflicted with AIDS, volunteers to work for a rehabilitation home. There, she gets attracted to George, a volunteer, but is afraid to get close to him due to her condition.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsAnjan DuttDimple KapadiaTathagata SanyalA writer moves into the palatial house of a friend to find creative inspiration. A chance telephonic chat with a mysterious woman blossoms into love as he finally finds what he was looking for.
- DirectorPervez MehrwanjiStarsKurush DebooPriya KrishnaswamyRuby PatelPercy lives with his mother in a Parsi colony in Bombay. One day, Percy discovers a fraud in the office accounts. This event has far-reaching consequences in the lives of Percy and his mother, Banubai.
- DirectorSusant MisraStarsBinyakaAnu ChoudhuryCarman CordwellOn his journey to self realization, Biswaparakash faces a changing value system in a new consumerist culture and that conflict with his beliefs, values and traditions.
- DirectorMani KaulStarsRekha SabnisArun KhopkarOm ShivpuriAashad Ka Ek Din is an adaptation of the play that is based on Kalidasa's life in three acts. Kalidasa is renowned as one of the greatest writers, poets and dramatists in the history of Sanskrit language.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsTripti MitraShaonli MitraSugata BurmanIn this quest narrative that makes the Odyssey look like a trip to the mall, four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist.
- DirectorKamal SwaroopStarsAnita KanwarGopi DesaiLalit TiwariA carefully constructed nonsense about a teenage boy named Om in a small Indian village.
- DirectorMani KaulStarsBharat GopyM.K. RainaVibhuti Jha
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsDhritiman ChatterjeeSimi GarewalPravas SarkarA political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman.
- DirectorJohn AbrahamStarsKunhulakshmi AmmaNilambur BalanHarinarayanThe story revolves around the incidents following the death of a young Naxalite, upon whose death his friends travel to the village where his mother lives to inform her of the death of her only son.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsParam Bhattaraka LahiriPadmadeviGyanesh MukherjeeA misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta.
- DirectorLaxmikant ShetgaonkarStarsChittaranjan GiriVeena JamkarPrasanthi TalpankerA recently widowed forest ranger in India strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.
- DirectorGul Bahar SinghStarsRajit KapoorAnjan SrivastavA.K. HangalSunil is an NRI married to an American girl. His father lives in Kolkata with an old servant Shambhu. When Sunil returns home after fifteen years he sees the house is locked and his father has disappeared. Guilt-ridden Sunil starts looking for him. He comes to know that his father might be in an old age home. He reaches there only to find that he had died a few months earlier. Sunil meets Satya Babu, his father's fellow inmate, who tells him all about his father's last days. Sunil tells the old man that he wants to adopt him as his father and requests him to come to US with him.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMadhavi MukherjeeGita SenBinota RoyAn angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
- DirectorDeepa DhanrajA pioneering political work of contemporary relevance: Communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in 1984 forms the starting point for this film, whose complexity lends it immense political force. The film's historical perspective is provided by a thorough commentary, which gives the camera's particular presence the necessary depth and complexity.
- DirectorAnand PatwardhanStarsDeepa AroraRita BhatiaSupriya PathakThe film story based on daily battle for survival of the 4 million slum dwellers of Bombay who make up half the city's population
- DirectorDeepa DhanrajAn examination of India's family planning program from the point of view of the women, its primary targets.
- DirectorAjoy KarStarsGouri BanerjeePanchanan BhattacharyaIra ChakrabortyA young girl, Archana, falls in love with Sukhendu, an educated young man. Her father gladly accepts Sukhendu as his son-in-law. But Sukhendu's income and nature come in way of this marriage.
- DirectorSai ParanjpyeStarsShabana AzmiNaseeruddin ShahSudha ChopraAnirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with social worker, Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, and he slowly also gets attracted to her. When marriage is proposed, both agree to marry each other. Then Anirudh starts having doubts whether this marriage is going to succeed, as he feels he is being patronized, and pittied.
- DirectorAnand PatwardhanStarsAnand PatwardhanThe danger of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.
- DirectorKumar ShahaniStarsNavjot HansraK.K. RainaManohar SinghManiram lives in a town and is a crooked businessman. The elder son is jailed for counterfeit currency. The younger son is a mad simpleton and married, but his wife loves another guy. She goes in business with land wrestled from Maniram.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsVictor BanerjeeNoni GangulyPankaj KapurStory of a poor farmer who suffers under a cunning and cruel landlord, amidst rising Naxalism in the 60s.
- DirectorNishikant KamatStarsParesh RawalKay Kay MenonIrrfan KhanA moving portrayal of the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, this Indian drama follows the interconnected stories of several strangers.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsArundhati DeviSoumitra ChatterjeeChhabi BiswasThe film is adapted from a story called Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore. A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted. As time passes he grows more consumed by the mansion and its air of romance, and the spirits that haunt it, especially a beautiful woman.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKallol BoseSubir BoseNorman EllisThis documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.
- DirectorS. SukhdevDirector S. Sukhdev traveled the length of India to gather footage for his impressionistic portrait of the country in the year 1967.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsAnil ChatterjeeSharmila TagoreChhayadeviOn his way to Puri by train, a writer gets acquainted with a group of four Bengali widows accompanied by their niece.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDhritiman ChatterjeeDipankar DeyIn this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
- DirectorJabbar PatelStarsMohan AgasheSatish AlekarLaxmikant BerdeAburao is a famous clown in Tamasha world, but will be soon addicted to the world of fame.
- DirectorA. BhimsinghStarsBhuvanadeviJayageethaLakshmiAn umarried woman tries to make it living alone in 70s Madras.
- DirectorAjoy KarStarsSuchitra SenUttam KumarKhitish AcharyaSet in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyIndrani HaldarThe film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
- DirectorMani KaulStarsFariduddin DagarZia Mohiyuddin DagarThis documentary about the classical music of India covers a genre in which a text of poetry is sung.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsNikhil BanerjeeIndranil BhattacharyaAnnapurna DeviLife and disciples of legendary Indian classical musician and teacher, 'Guru' of Pandit Ravishankar, 'Baba' Ustad Alauddin Khan.
- DirectorS.N.S. Sastry
- DirectorBharathirajaStarsRaadhuNizhalgal RaviChandrashekhar VaidyaThe travails of three unemployed young men trying to make ends meet and chasing their aspirations.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSaswata ChatterjeeNandita DasKaushik SenA triangle love story between viz Meher (Kaushik Sen), Noor (Saswato Chaterjee) and Sakina (Nandita Das).
- DirectorSange Dorjee ThongdokStarsAnshu JamsenpaPhuntsu KhrimeTashi, a man in his early thirties is forced to come back to his village in the remote northeast region of india after eight years when he loses his job in the city. As he stays in the village waiting for news of any new job in the city to go back to, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and his people. He gradually begins rediscovering his roots, which he had never paid attention to earlier. He meet and falls in love with a girl, Anila, a school teacher in the village who helps him in the process. The experience in the village begins to slowly change him and he decides to finally stay back in the village and not go back even after he gets the news that he has found himself a new job in the city.
- DirectorAmol PalekarStarsAmol PalekarDeepti NavalDevika MukherjeeRenowned Indian astrologer Jyotibhaskar Pandit Satyanarayan Chaturvedi, wishes a doctor, who is about to perform surgery on a woman, good luck, but also tells him that his patient is going to die. The doctor scoffs at this, and proceeds to the operation theatre. The patient dies, and the doctor is humbled before the astrologer. The astrologer lives with his wife, Devki, and an only son, Nandu. Nandu is of marriageable age, and he would like to see him get married to a woman named Indu Agnihotri. But Nandu loves another woman by the name of Sushma Chatopadhya and is determined to marry her. And then his father tells him that he is fated to have two wives in this lifetime - the first will die within eleven months of the marriage - and that's when he will re-marry. Modern-day educated Nandu must now decide to believe his father and let go of Sushma, or defy his astrological beliefs and marry her.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsAnjan DuttMamata ShankarSreela MajumdarThe servant boy, a minor, engaged in a middle class family dies mysteriously locked in a kitchen.
- DirectorSandip RayStarsHaradhan BannerjeeBiplab ChatterjeeTarun MitraMystery-drama about a botched kidnapping of a Calcutta schoolboy and his relationships and adventures.
- DirectorGovindan Aravindan
- DirectorChidananda Das GuptaStarsPijush GangulyRachana BanerjeeAshok MukherjeeAmodini is a rich landowner's daughter. Unable to face social stigma, her father arranges her marriage to a much older person, who fails to turn up on the wedding day. To save the situation, she is forced to marry a 15-year-old boy.
- DirectorAsit SenStarsAjit BanerjeeKalipada ChakrabortyChhayadeviA story of love and sacrifice of a mother who did everything to protect her child ,even from her husband.
- DirectorGurvinder SinghStarsSamuel JohnMal SinghSerbjeet KaurA day in the life of a family in a village in Punjab as they deal with social and labor trials and inequities, leading to a night of a lunar eclipse.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniStarsOm PuriNaseeruddin ShahSmita PatilA public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
- DirectorBiplab Roy ChowdhuryStarsOm PuriKanhu BandhopodhyayTapti BhatachrjeeSurendra (Om Puri), having been exiled from his village in youth and established himself in the city, comes back to the news of his father's demise, reportedly at the hands of a phantom. He announces a prize for anyone who succeeds in showing him a ghost, which attracts the greed of the poor hungry peasants,resulting in the accusations of innocent people as haunted and even murders with the hope of producing a ghost.
- DirectorUtpalendu ChakrabartyStarsOm PuriAnil ChatterjeeShyamanand JalanA labour wrongly accused in a murder of his owner's brother and a coworker is given death sentence .He decides to donate his eye and the owner learns about this falsify donation documents to provide for his blind son.
- DirectorB.V. KaranthStarsM.V. Vasudeva RaoPadma KumtaJayarajanChoma is an untouchable bonded laborer in a village who is working along with his family for a landlord, as he belongs to a backward class.[2] Due to his social status, he is not allowed to till his own land, something that he desires.
- DirectorRamesh SharmaRomesh SharmaStarsShashi KapoorSharmila TagoreOm PuriWhen a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeBobitaSandhya RoyAs food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
- DirectorRajat KapoorStarsNaseeruddin ShahShambhavi KaulIrrfan KhanAn urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods. The film breaks generic conventions, notably in the presentation of the private detective through his deglamourised life and his process of discovery of 'who did it'. It is not constructed through his point of view at all. In fact the policeman and the detective, the fact finders, are in the dark about the crime, to the very end.
- DirectorAgradootStarsSavitri ChatterjeeSupriya ChoudhuryAsha DeviPranbir goes to war and finds his double,named Rateswar, who eventually dies in combat. Pranbir goes to Rateswar's house to tell his family about his death but the family mistakes Pranbir for Rateswar.
- DirectorMoni BhattacharjeeStarsSunil DuttWaheeda RehmanNirupa RoyA notorious bandit continues to elude the authorities and strikes terror in the region.
- DirectorSubhankar GhoshStarsPallavi JoshiNeena GuptaParesh RawalTunu lives and spends her time at the Howrah Railway Station, searching desperately for her father Dinesh Roy, a small-time politician. He abandoned her and her mother, Geeta, who is now a bootlegger and prostitute in order to survive.
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsDilip DhawanAnjali PaigankarShreeram LagooArvind Desai is the only son of a rich businessman who deals in luxury handicraft products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsShashi KapoorNafisa AliShabana AzmiSet during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
- DirectorAleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaViktor GromovIvan Ivanov-VanoStarsGeorgi ChernovolenkoAlik KachanovAnatoliy KubatskiyAdventures of Ivan the Fool and humpbacked horse in the world of kind magical creatures and cruel people.Traditional animation. Based on the classic satirical poem The Hunchedback Horse about Ivan and his magic horse who run errands for a Tsar. Highly regarded by Walt Disney, it was later redrawn from scratch, with 15 minutes added.
- DirectorRoman KachanovGlenn StantonStarsOlga GromovaVsevolod LarionovYuriy VolyntsevZoologist professor Steel, his small daughter Christine and captain Green leave Earth in search for rare space animals. The journey turns into adventurous and dangerous mission involving space pirates and a missing captain of a ship.Traditional animation. Breathtaking space adventure of the schoolgirl Alice in the 22nd century based on a series of sci-fi books The Mystery of the Third Planet. The soundtrack is especially beautiful (replaced in the US release).
- DirectorBoris StepantsevStarsKlara RumyanovaVasiliy LivanovValentina LeontyevaA Soviet cartoon adaptation of a classic Swedish tale by Astrid Lindgren about Karlsson-on-the-Roof.Traditional animation. Karlsson-on-the-Roof is a popular Swedish fairy tale about a little fat guy with a propeller behind his back turned into one of the funniest toons.
+ Karlsson Flies Again (1970) - DirectorRoman DavydovStarsLyusena OvchinnikovaAleksandr NazarovAnatoliy PapanovA boy raised by animals learns to live by the laws of the jungle. Full-length version of the Soviet animated series.Traditional animation. A faithful adaptation of the two Jungle Books. Careful translation of Kipling's philosophies, distinctive art style and a truly epic battle with red dogs!
- DirectorDmitriy BabichenkoIvan Ivanov-VanoMikhail BotovStarsNina GulyaevaEvgeniy VesnikGeorgiy VitsinA colorful fairy tale about a little wooden boy Buratino and his quest for the Golden Key that opens a secret door.Traditional animation. Based on the best-selling Soviet fairy tale The Adventures of Buratino (which is also, eh, based on The Adventures of Pinocchio). It's easily among the best-looking Russian toons ever, very colorful and detailed.
- DirectorAida ZyablikovaStarsGeorgiy VitsinTatyana PelttserFeliks IvanovPrequel to Kuzya's story tells about his adventures in the woods, and how he got into Natasha's apartment.Stop motion animation. Adventures of Little Domovoi is a very funny mini-series about an underage house spirit and other folk creatures adapting to the Soviet realm. And yes, the countdown usually starts from the second chapter that serves as a prequel.
+ A House for Kuzka (1984)
+ Fairy Tale for Natasha (1986)
+ Return of Domovoi (1987) - CreatorAleksandr KurlyandskiyArkadiy KhaytFeliks KamovStarsAnatoliy PapanovKlara RumyanovaIgor KhristenkoA long-years odyssey of Wolf to catch Hare. Comprehensive changes in the Soviet Union pass in the background.Traditional animation. A wolf hooligan is chasing a hipster hare through various Soviet locations in Well, Just You Wait! Most popular cartoon series of its time (and place).
- DirectorLeonid NosyrevStarsEvgeniy LeonovAleksey PtitsynAleksandr BaranovIn cold and snowy taiga, the Tiger cub had no home. So he was looking for a warm and safe place to hide.Traditional animation. A Tiger on a Sunflower is a touching story about a cute Amur baby tiger who warmed a seed that grew into a giant sunflower, home for everyone!
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsEvgeniy LeonovIya SavvinaVladimir OsenevA Soviet version of Winnie-the-Pooh. His first adventure is a desperate attempt to get to honey in a bee hollow. He is ready to take decisive action.Traditional animation. 3 chapters from Winnie-the-Pooh drawn in an unorthodox manner. A lot of humour was added on the way, making it one of the most quotable Soviet toons.
+ Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting (1971)
+ Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day (1972) - DirectorMikhail TsekhanovskiyStarsBoris ChirkovVladimir GribkovAleksey GribovA prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.Traditional animation. One of the most gorgeous animations based on one of the weirdest Russian fairy tales The Frog Princess about a prince who once married a frog.
- DirectorDavid CherkasskiyStarsValeriy BessarabArmen DzhigarkhanyanViktor AndrienkoCartoon adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous adventure novel.Traditional animation/live action. How to make a laugh-out-load comedy out of Treasure Island? Take the original text, add goofy characters, parodies, slapstick and satirical songs (cut out from the American version).
- DirectorBoris StepantsevStarsRina ZelyonayaElena PonsovaKlara RumyanovaA schoolboy gets into a fairy tale with the help of a librarian and DIY book. But life in the magical land is not as easy as it seems.Traditional animation. Vovka in a Far Far Away Kingdom is a very very funny postmodernist look on Russian folklore. A lazy Soviet boy finds a way into the book of fairy tales.
- DirectorVladimir PolkovnikovAleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaStarsValentina SperantovaAnatoliy KubatskiyErast GarinA naughty boy named Nils is shrunken to a small size after offending a tomte. He has to go on a voyage with geese across Lapland to fulfill the prophecy and turn back to normal.Traditional animation. The Enchanted Boy is an adorable, atmospheric adaptation of the popular Swedish fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. A boy has to travel with geese across Sweden after offending a vindictive tomte.
- DirectorValeriy UgarovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyNatalya SeleznyovaInna ChurikovaA rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn't laugh.Traditional animation. Based on Caliph Stork by the German classic Wilhelm Hauff, it used to scare kids all over the country. There's just something very unhealthy, yet amusing about a stupid calif and his encounter with an evil wizard.
- DirectorVladimir PopovStarsOleg TabakovValentina TalyzinaMariya VinogradovaLittle Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.Traditional animation. Three from Prostokvashino is a fun, charming film series about a town boy who immigrated to a village house, together with a talking cat and a dog.
+ Vacation in Prostokvashino (1980)
+ Winter in Prostokvashino (1984) - DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsGordon PinsentKevin DuhaneyYôji MatsudaAn old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.Paint-on-glass animation. This movie based on the famous novel by Hemingway perfected Petrov's style, turning him into one of the world's most respected animators.
- DirectorAleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaIvan Ivanov-VanoStarsVeronika BorisenkoLeonid KtitorovIrina MaslennikovaThe tale about a girl with a cold heart who is dying in agony because of joy and love.Traditional animation. The Snow Maiden is a beautiful winter tale based on Rimsky-Korsakov's opera based on Ostrovsky's play. It takes place during pre-Christian days, with pagan symbols, folk creatures, Slavic songs and dances.
- DirectorAleksandr TatarskiyStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaStanislav SadalskiySurreal misadventures of a lazy drunkard with speech impediment trying to get a New Year tree on a short notice. Loosely based on folk fairy tales.Claymation. Last Year's Snow Was Falling, the second - and arguably the best - Soviet clay animation (the first was Plasticine Crow in 1981). Absolutely hilarious mix of Russian fairy tales and morphing abilities of plasticine.
- DirectorInessa KovalevskayaStarsElmira ZherzdevaOleg AnofrievAnatoliy GorokhovA story loosely based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'Town Musicians of Bremen', about a donkey, a dog, a cat, a rooster and their master Troubadour.Traditional animation. How Troubadour and several animals started a musical band. The Bremen Town Musicians and its sequel are full of songs and hippies (back in the USSR!).
+ On the Trail of Bremen Town Musicians (1971) - DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsVladimir KonstantinovIvan YudinIvan BobrovWhile hearing the story of "Gulliver's Travels", a young Russian boy dreams that he is the title character on the island of Lilliput.Stop motion animation + live actor. Ptushko was the first to properly combine stop motion cartoon and a live actor in The New Gulliver - Soviet Swift adaptation. 3000 dolls, hundreds of animations per frame and various camera tricks.
- DirectorLev AtamanovStarsVladimir GribkovYanina ZheymoAnna KomolovaWhen the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.Traditional animation. The Snow Queen is a gorgeous feature based on the epic fairy tale by H.C. Andersen. US versions are not so gorgeous, lacking original score/songs.
- DirectorEduard NazarovStarsEduard NazarovThe story about a injured ant who travel by a hitch-hiking.Traditional animation. Highly educational and simply hilarious short Travels of an Ant. Based on the story by the Russian scientist and writer Vitaly Bianki known for his books on nature. Welcome to the crazy world of insects!
- DirectorGennadiy SokolskiyAnimation story about a little mouse, who was so tiny, that everybody could offend him.Traditional animation. A Mouse Called Pik is another one of Bianki's stories about a baby mouse and his travels through wildness. The film is stunning visually and full of green colour, enchanting music and sounds of nature.
- StarsGennadiy KhazanovMargarita KorabelnikovaNatalya ChenchikKesha is a parrot. That explains a lot. He's a Soviet parrot, and that explains the rest.Traditional animation. A much beloved mini-series (three 10-minute shorts), The Return of the Prodigal Parrot is not just a comedy about a bad-tempered parrot Kesha. For many it mirrors the life in the USSR during the 1980s.
- DirectorAnatoliy PetrovStarsAleksandr BelyavskiyAnatoliy KuznetsovSergey MartynovA military scientist creates a mind-reading weapon for his generals on a remote island. After the demonstration, the generals are pleased. Little do they realize, both the weapon, and the creator of the weapon have a mind of their own.Traditional animation. Firing Range is not only technically impressive (Petrov developed a very complex, realistic art style long before CGI). It is also a deep antiwar story.
- DirectorLev AtamanovStarsValentina SperantovaNina NikitinaRuben SimonovA poor Indian boy saves a magic antelope that can produce gold with its hooves. After a greedy Raja learns about it, he orders to bring him the antelope - or die.Traditional animation. A colourful and imaginable film, The Golden Antelope is based around Indian fairy tales about a peasant boy, a greedy raja and a magic auriferous antelope. Full of wonderful scenes of exotic wildlife.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?Stop motion animation. Starevich gained fame after a series of films with animated insects released in 1910-1915. What's more important, they are still fun to watch!
+ The Beautiful Leukanida (1912)
+ The Grasshopper and the Ant (1913)
+ The Lily of Belgium (1915) - DirectorLeonid NosyrevStarsEvgeniy LeonovYuriy VolyntsevAnatoliy BarantsevAn old fisherman tells stories about Pomors. A collection of fairy tales about the Russian North, full of folk humor and wisdom.Traditional animation. Laughter and Grief by the White Sea is an amusing collection of seven Pomor fairy tales collected by two Russian folklorists and inspired by national art.
- DirectorEduard NazarovStarsLeonid KuravlyovNelli KornienkoNina RuslanovaThe story about young deserter who found a magic cards and fell in love with a horned princess .Traditional animation. Yet another Pomor tale by Boris Shergin about Imperial Russia - one of the funniest so far.
- StarsErica SchroederDan GreenMike PollockA popular Russian TV series for kids about the colorful land populated by anthropomorphic spherical animals who solve their daily problems using the Winnie-the-Pooh logic.Computer animation. Smeshariki (or funnyballs) is the most popular Russian TV series of the past 10+ years with some of the best writing featured. Adventures of nine rounded animals from the forest led by "Winnie-the-Pooh logic".
- DirectorMstislav PashchenkoStarsVladimir RatomskiyMariya YarotskayaYuliya YulskayaA naughty kitten runs away from home to take part in a dangerous forest adventure. A special "fluffy effect" was developed for this cartoon to make animals look more lively.Traditional animation. A Naughty Kitten leads a forest gang on a big trip. One of the most charming shorts you'll ever see.
- DirectorRoman DavydovStarsStepan BubnovVladimir BurlakovVladimir KenigsonA film dedicated to the great Battle of Kulikovo that took place many centuries ago between the Russian army led by Dmitry Donskoy and the Golden Horde.Traditional animation. The Swans of Nepryadva is dedicated to the Battle of Kulikovo, one of the most important battles in Russian history. Full of pathos and symbolism.
- StarsZinoviy GerdtEvgeniy PapernyyGeorgiy KishkoAn old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.Cutout/traditional animation. It started as a comedy novel by a former sailor about Captain Vrungel ("vrun" as in "liar") and his circumnavigation. Although animators seemed to be more inspired by spy films, musicals, Zeman and Gilliam.
- DirectorIvan Ivanov-VanoMikhail BotovStarsTatyana BaryshevaYuliya YulskayaLyudmila KasatkinaA poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.Traditional animation. Traditional New Year cartoon The Twelve Months and one of the true eye candies. A young girl who was searching for April flowers in a winter forest stumbled across all 12 months chilling out by the fire.