Yuri Norstein Movies

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

Short soviet animated movie about a girl who wants a dog, while her mother does not approve. The girl then starts playing with her mitten, pretending...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A new version of Kolobok, who made friends with the inhabitants of the forest.

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...

The history of Russian animated films.

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

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

A delicate stroll through the nature‘s wilderness at different times of the year.

The story is based on the legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which disappears under the waters of a lake to escape an attack by the Mongols.

Second animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Cheburashka wishes Gena the Crocodile a happy birthday and gives him a toy helicopter as a gift. After...

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