In the Clutches of the Soviets

Kittens were playing with matches while at home so their entire house has been put under the fire threat.

The story is about consequences of hiring employees outside without the necessary competence documents.

Wartime Soviet propaganda cartoon. The short shows the fascist threat, symbolised by vultures, and glorifies Soviet defence, represented here by the airforce.

At a forest skating rink, a wolf persistently looks after a hare and is about to take her home.

A self-loving and arrogant priest, strolling through the market square, is looking for a "cook, stable boy and carpenter" who would work for him diligently and a lot, and take only a little money for it. He meets a brave young man, Balda, who is hired as a servant by the popes for a purely symbolic payment - "a year for three cheeks on the forehead". Soon the Pope will have to learn the power of Balda's slap.

A donkey, a goat, a marmoset and a leering bear arrange a quartet.

The eagle family flew in to look for a place for their nest. The eagle-eyed looked for a tall, sprawling oak for the future of her offspring. But then a mole intervened and tried to discourage the building of a nest in the crowns of this tree - the roots of the oak were rotten long ago and it could soon fall.

Based on the Russian folk tale about the simpleton Emelya, who was taught magic words by a pike that fulfill any of his wishes.

Brave Rooster fools a mischievous Fox who has tries to eat at his table.

Cubs, elephants and a hen do not follow traffic rules and are in trouble.

The hare fraudulently organize a death penalty for an annoying neighbors

A remote Ukrainian village. A poor peasant, Hryhorii Malynovskyi, wants to expose those who oppose the revolutionary changes in the village - the rich, led by Konstantin Popandopul, who have made their way into the village council and are ruling there. Since poor peasants enjoy certain privileges, the rich in the village council decide to exclude Grigory from the list of poor people. Outraged, Hryhorii goes to the city and writes a letter to the newspaper. Malynovskyi is murdered. The investigator uncovers the murder and the thieves are brought to justice. The film is based on the high-profile trial of the murder of the pro-Bolshevik rural journalist Hryhorii Malynovskyi in the village of Dymivka (later renamed Malynivka in honor of Malynovskyi in Odesa province, now Mykolaiv region), promoted by Pravda newspaper and mentioned by Stalin.

A Soviet cartoon with an original electronic musical score.