Yuri Norstein Movies

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

A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying...

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.

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...

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

A circus lion goes on holiday to Africa, but his circus skills doesn't let him be. Based on the tale of the Czech writer Milos Macourek "Boniface...

A documentary about the Ghibli Museum. It features Goro Miyazaki speaking with Isao Takahata about the "charm" of the museum and its various...

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

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

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

A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The...

The history of Russian animated films.

Soviet full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky, which includes all three pictures of the...

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

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the...

Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid...

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