Garri Bardin

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

Crocodile Gena works in a zoo - a crocodile. Every evening he returns home to his lonely apartment. Finally he tired of playing with himself in chess, and Gene decides to make friends. On the ads pasted around the city, responding animals and people. First comes a girl with a homeless puppy Gal, followed by the Cheburashka...

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

The fox takes advantage of the kindness of the animals. Cartoon in verse, voiced by Harry Bardin and Nikolai Karachentsov.

A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn't laugh.

A Soviet claymation short film created by Garri Bardin in 1990 that retells the story of Red Riding Hood while incorporating political metaphors and themes about the USSR's demise; the wolf representing communism, devouring innocent creatures who have never known him.

This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.

A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.

A clever fox passes off a stray cat as a tiger.

About the harmful effects of alcohol on the human body.

Animation film about boy Ivashka's adventures in the country of fairy tales.

A funny story about four young men who are starting a band.

The story of dating, love, marriage and family life, as shown by two ropes.

A modern fairy tale about funny little cars.

Like a hare guarding a cabbage.

Secondary school students play a 'practical joke' on their teacher: on midterms day, they claim she told them the wrong date. She almost believes them, but an honest classmate ruins their fun... and now they want revenge.

A musical TV story based on the work of Wilhelm Gauf "Little Muck".

When Misha the Bear was chosen as the mascot for the Olympic Games 1980, Baba-yaga (the witch) sets out to fight and become the mascot herself.

Story based on an ancient Gypsy Proverbs, which talked about how the thirst for gold, wealth deprived "Gypsy birds" their true form and turned into a wandering people.

Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind the farmyard kingdom fence, and discreetly slips it into the clutch laid by his partner... Very soon, a cygnet emerges, but as he in no way resembles any of them he is immediately stigmatized by the whole farmyard, enduring humiliations and suspicion on the part of his feathered companions. But in the end he becomes a magnificent white swan.

Animated Soviet propaganda cartoon by S. Aristakesov, about a boy who search for his grandfather who was MIA in WWII.

Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means.

How brothers Colored Pencils and sister Kind Brush defeated the enemies of the multicolored world.

A parody of the theatre world. The same piece is played out in a few different theatre styles: opera, avant garde, children's theatre, vaudeville etc.

A talk show

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.

A drawn animated series about the incredible and very funny adventures of Baron Munchausen, so similar to the hero of the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe - Baron Munchausen. The same dreamer, inventor and liar. And you will believe in these amazingly true stories?