Porridge Made from an Axe

A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.

A television play based on A.N. Ostrovsky's play *"The Last Victim"*, filmed for the 180th anniversary of the playwright's birth. This play features the fateful passion of a young woman, an irresistible seducer, vast wealth, and a desire to destroy one's soul in debauchery.

Boa is in great mood and wants to share it with Monkey. So he sends his best regard to her through Elephant.

38 parrots - a cycle of Soviet puppet cartoons for children. The cycle consists of 10 short cartoons about the relationship of four animals - the Monkey, the Baby Elephant, the Parrot, the Boa constrictor and the grandmother of the latter.

An unusual student appears in the mouse school. The beginning of the trilogy about the shy elephant based on the fairy tales of David Samoylov.

The film tells us about the circus horse made of wooden balls who became the best actor in the circus. Yuri Norstein was it's sole animator. His handling of puppets and decor created a rare elegant beauty. Being known as the worlds greatest puppet animation director, many people in the west forget that he was animator too.

A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.

The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to the kind girl Annunziata. The scientist becomes a victim of palace intrigues and intrigues. His own shadow, which appeared to the hero, pushes him to a cowardly act - the rejection of the princess. The shadow wins the heart of the princess and wants to destroy Christian-Theodore. But, as it is supposed to be in a real fairy tale, everything ends happily. The hero is helped by Annunziata's love and the sympathy of the town's inhabitants for the scientist who wants to make everyone happy.

Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.

Elephant, Boa, Monkey and Parrot attempt to close the law of attraction.

The second issue of the animated film, with the participation of characters already familiar to the children - three funny froglings, who this time go to secondary school and meet with their dried relatives, who were put in alcohol and face new adventures.

The main characters of the animated film are three little frogs, who suddenly lost their home due to drainage of the swamp and are now forced to look for a new reservoir for life. Together they dream of finding a sea in which they can settle. But the search for a new home is not an easy task. It's very difficult for little frogs in the modern world, where there are many cars and an incredible amount of dangers around.

We are for the world. Peace, friendship. Three little froglings found an alien frog that fell from the sky. And she invited the frogs to her house, where you can't touch anything, this is not a swamp. Frogs didn't like it in the city, because it's better in the swamp.

A certain Chumakov addressed the People's Judge Kavelin. He brought a statement of claim to his son, Sergey Gribanov, in which he demands care, love and alimony from him. Chumakov, who left his family when the boy was two years old, is now afraid to be alone, because Sergei's stepfather has become a real, loving father... Judge Kavelin has to figure out this difficult, but unfortunately, life-changing situation.