Alexander Kostinsky

A short Russian animated film about a man and a fish.

Mistress Hen has a lot of worries every day. She needs to feed the chickens, take them to kindergarten, clean, iron, and prepare dinner. But how to cook something without salt? Hen goes to the neighbor Goose to borrow salt, but she asks to do her a favour. A simple request triggers a whole cascade of favours that must be arranged to get...salt. The cartoon satirically mirrors the rampant barter and blat in the poor Soviet society of the late "stagnation" era.

A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space.

The monkey is a bit of a rascal, until the tiger cub shows him he doesn't have any friends because of it.

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

A story about a little penguin and a big whale who live on an icy island and maintain order on it. Their life credo, which became a catchphrase outside the animation: "Cleanliness is the key to health! Order is the first thing!" One day they were noticed by a person who brought crowds of visitors with him. They left heaps of garbage and destroyed the cleanliness and order on the white iceberg.