Direction: 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 · Irene Starewicz

Plot In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master...

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 In Fleur de fougère (1949), he slowly pans along a medieval banquet table of Aesopian animals, stopping by each one for a quick comment or joke. Choosing to film fables...

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

Plot From Le Lion Devenu Vieux, or The Old Lion (1932) by Vladislav Starevich. An elderly king dreams of romantic adventures inspired by troubadours outside the palace. While dreaming, his cabinet...

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 · Irene Starewicz

Plot A dog's shipboard honeymoon voyage takes a turn for the worse when a fierce storm hits the ship.

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot A comedy-drama about insects. King Cervus gives a magnificent ball at his castle. The most honored guest in the Country of Moustache-Owners is Count Heros. The dressed-up guests whirl away...

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz

Plot A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites...

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...