Tall Tales

On a rainy and windy day, characters try to lead normal lives despite the inclement weather. Every everyday task becomes an ordeal, leading to clumsiness, falls, and a series of absurd situations. Through these successive incidents, the film ironically observes how humanity struggles against a world that is slipping away from it.

Octopus dads mix up their kids.

An ancient Latvian folk tale is the basis for this colorful animated feature in the tradition of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. A vengeful sorceress casts a kingdom’s princess into a deep sleep at the top of an icy mountain, where she awaits release from the spell that will destroy the land. Of all the men vying for the honor, the shy outcast son of a family of thugs is the most unlikely. Director Kalnaellis brings a playful sense of humor to the characterizations and adds zippy contemporary elements including a chorus of wisecracking crows. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Volume 1 (1962-1968): "Story of One Crime", "Man in the Frame", "My Green Crocodile", "There Lived Kozyavin", "Mountain of Dinosaurs", "Passion of Spies", "Glass Harmonica", "Ball of Wool", "Singing Teacher", "Film, Film, Film".

A bear cub on the road

A girl named Patchwork and the real cloud fight the evil king Fontanius I and his treacherous subordinates.

The cartoon tells about an ordinary family, where the mother constantly talks on the phone, the father watches TV, and the child, whom no one cares for, throws toys around. Everything changes with the arrival of a grandmother from another city. The family receives her coldly. Only the grandson is happy about her arrival. But as if by magic, order comes into the house, things are put in their places, the dishes are washed in the kitchen, and how delicious the food and pies are from grandma! The parents now argue less among themselves, the son is well-groomed and cheerful. But the grandmother leaves as suddenly as she arrived, and now her arrival is awaited with great impatience, and even the mother hopes that the mother-in-law will stay with them longer.

Based on the short story of the same name by Mark Twain.

The life of a simple cockroach is not easy. Not only are people poisoning him at every turn, he still has to exist without a TV. And our hero has a dream - TV. Unrealizable, but a dream. And yet one morning he believed that dreams come true, because he found a whole penny. We see several episodes from his life in the barn, a trip to a restaurant that is located in the floor of a real restaurant for cockroaches, getting only the TV console instead of the TV itself.

An animated film for adults about a performance put on at a fair by the famous Punch, Pulcinella, and Petrushka.

Based on the folklore of the peoples of the North.

Animal musicians who cannot play well create an ensemble that, oddly enough, is successful, performing the hit song “Two Camels Flew.”