Cinematography: Wladyslaw Starewicz

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and so...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Nina Star · Bogdan Zoubowitch

Plot It's the story of Yolande, a little girl (about 12) who wanted to become a princess. Bombastus, her old father, has created a marvelous and big clock crowded with little...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot Mr. Grasshopper, a jilted cameraman, takes his revenge by filming Mr. Beetle and his mistress Ms. Dragonfly and then shows the results at a local cinema where Mrs. Beetle is...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot The frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot Based on a fable by Krylov, and other sources: All summer, the grasshopper sings, plays music, and visits with it's friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot The Country Rat visits his friend, the Town Rat, but finds that life in the great metropolis is rather too hectic (and dangerous - there's a live cat among all...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Nina Star

Plot A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate,...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot A galloping burlesque and sophisticated critique of a variety of genres. The film institutes a racial division of love's labor, with a black and white Cupid competing against each other.

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Andrej Gromov · Ivan Lazarev

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Irene Starewicz · Jan Wichniekski

Plot When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. He tells her an allegory about the Lily of...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Ivan Mozzhukhin · Olga Obolenskaya · Lidiya Tridenskaya · Petr Lopukhin

Plot Based on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot A small group of animals gathers around a frozen pond. The animals then play together on the ice and in the snow. Later, when the season changes, they look for...

Direction Aleksandr Sanin · Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky

Cast Nikolay Podgorny · Vladimir Aleksandrovskiy · Sergei Aidarov · Nadezhda Smirnova

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot The animated combat by night between stag beetles.

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot Fètiche is pulled underwater by the mermaids into an underwater palace . His beloved, Loulou, is taken away from the monkey on an island. Will the lovers be reunited?

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Cast Pavel Knorr · Ivan Mozzhukhin · Olga Obolenskaya · Viktor Tourjansky

Direction Pyotr Chardynin

Cast Praskovya Maksimova · Sofya Goslavskaya · Ivan Mozzhukhin

Plot Based on the verse story by Pushkin: Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot Wladyslaw Starewicz tackles the de la Fontaine fable about the grasshopper and the ant, one of those stories that is so familiar that I don't feel the need to summarize...