Movies: Yuri Norstein

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6 Films of legendary russian animation master Yuriy Norshteyn are now fully 2K restored in Steelbook! Blu-ray&DVD...

A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and humorous animation, almost never exposed to western eyes....

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the history of animation and the inventor of a unique device — a needle screen . He did the first color ...

About how the pike settled next to the beaver dam and lay in wait for the beaver cubs. In response, the beavers built an underwater vehicle to drive away the pike and its assistant crayfish, but adult beavers also had to be called in for help....

Tale about schoolchildren who are preparing for the New Year and lisping goblin who can't pronounce words of children's holiday song....

The screen version of the Saltykov-Shchedrin tale about how two complacent generals miraculously found themselves on an uninhabited island. How a peasant was courting the generals, feeding and dressing them, content himself with crumbs from their tab...

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 handling of puppets and decor created a rare elegant beauty. Being known as the worlds greatest puppet an...

"Good Night, Little Ones!" is a Russian-language children's show created by Alexander Tatarsky & Eduard Uspensky that was first aired in 1964. This listing in particular is for Yuri Norstein's sequence that he created to air before/after each episod...

A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a meta...

In 1980, renowned Russian animators Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova began production on a beautiful stop-motion film called The Overcoat. After 40 years of work, the film remains unfinished, and The Overcoat has taken the record for longest an...

The life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg....

Montage of still photos with lighting effects....

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

Soviet full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky, which includes all three pictures of the Pushkin's trilogy of the director: "I Am Tlying to You as a Memory..." (1977), "With You I Am Again..." ...

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film “I walk through Moscow”. At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiyev! Both of these films will be called t...

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

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The grandchildren of the Old Cedar - cones and young shoots - fight the forest fire, protecting their grandfather, and defeat the fire....

A comedian helps to settle matters in two kingdoms, one of which is forbidden to cry, and in the other - to laugh....