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.

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.

About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.

A little train is always late.

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

Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

About the harmful effects of alcohol on the human body.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Short film by Ideya Garanina

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...

Like a hare guarding a cabbage.

A cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale. About the adventures of girl Zhikharka living with a Cat and a Rooster.

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.

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.

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

The cat in the bag arrives in Russia as part of humanitarian aid from America and gets young drunk and mountain-the patriot Karabasov, which offers to emigrate to America. Flying on the magic cat which uses the tail as a propeller, dropped over Europe. There conceited young man forgets about the invaluable services rendered him puss in boots, and he returns ungrateful back to Russia...

The boy Mitya is a real athlete: He is actively involved in sports and participates in all school sports competitions. One day he finds an apple that has fallen from a tree and eats it. Mitya had a severe stomach ache, and the boy imagined himself very tiny in his own body, where he met the evil Microbus.

About how Baba Yaga turned the children of Vasilisa the worker into two maples and about maternal love that defeated evil forces.

The film is about a boy who made himself a very necessary stuffed nanny out of old, unnecessary things. And, as happens in fairy tales, the Scarecrow came to life. True friendship is not only about holidays, but also the harsh trials that the heroes overcome with honor.

As children returned fallen star to the sky.

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?