Movies: Aleksandr Petrov

An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life....

An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter w...

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversat...

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the t...

In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women....

An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself....

A friendly moose lets an insect hitch a ride on his antlers. But the moose is soon taken advantage of, as more and more forest creatures (including a bear!) take up residence in his antlers. How can the moose get rid of these unwanted guests? Based o...

Animated short based on the story of the same name by Andrei Platonov....

The history of Russian animated films....

The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette g...

Firebird is a three-minute animated sequence directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov for the Sochi paralympic games....

Paint-on-glass animated short project overseen by Aleksandr Petrov....

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The opening animation of Animavi Festival for Poetic Animation Opening....

The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool....

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Released to honor the 1000th anniversary of the city of Yaroslavl, Russia....

Seven days of destruction of the Biblical world....

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A little girl is told a fairy tale about a little bug who doesn't know what she should do with her life as she explores the big, wondrous world. Based on the story by Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak....