Animated Soviet Propaganda

A popular Soviet cartoon based on the classic fairy tale The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda. The film is notable for its songs performed by one single actor Oleg Anfroiev using different voices.

The adventures of a little ship who has a lot of friends.

The installation of a vending machine near a family's house causes some problems.

There lived in one yard four friends: a kitten, a puppy, a goat and a small chicken. But only they always cursed because their things somehow disappeared. The kitten lost milk from the bowl, the puppy lost his bone, the kid lost a carrot, and the chicken, almost had hardly been eaten. But one day the friends accidentally found a rat-thief, who they then all together amicably caught in a mousetrap and she paid for her theft.

A musical film about the adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a plan how to get the King's confidence.

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The tale about a girl with a cold heart who is dying in agony because of joy and love.

Adventures of Ivan the Fool and humpbacked horse in the world of kind magical creatures and cruel people.

The story is based on the legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which disappears under the waters of a lake to escape an attack by the Mongols.

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The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.

Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poisons her...

Ivan and his three brothers are sent to protect the fields again so mysterious culprit responsible for destroying the wheat crop. Lo and behold that culprit is a magic pony who leads them on the enchanted adventure filled with wondrous encounters.

Episode 2. Mowgli — the adopted son of a wolf family. He grows quickly and learns from his mentors. The rumor that the wolf pack living human child, comes to banderlogs. The monkey tribe, decided to make Mowgli their leader. They steal Mowgli and transfer it into a towns ruins in the jungle.

Episode 4. A terrible threat hanging over the wolf tribe and all living inhabit the jungle. On native places for Mowgli is approaching a huge flock of wild red dogs, destroying everything in its path. It seemed nothing to resist them, but Mowgli comes up with as they confront the red Horde.

Soviet propaganda cartoon depicting the evils of American capitalism. A worker who owns a small share in a big company is living large, until his company replaces its workers with robots and its small shares become worthless. The shareholder finds himself alone in a cruel world.

A cartoon about the Battle of Kulikovo Field.

Episode 3. Mowgli has grown and in order that he might take his place in the pack he needed to arm themselves. Kaa helped Mowgli find the Iron Tooth in the abandoned cave. It happened just in time because the old enemy tiger Shere Khan raised havoc in the pack was going to overthrow Akela leader of the wolf.

Adventures of Mowgli is an animated feature-length story originally released as five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each between 1967 and 1971 in the Soviet Union.

The hare fraudulently organize a death penalty for an annoying neighbors.

A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter.

It is a continuation of adventures of the bear cub who searches for the friend and finds him on the Polar station during the New year.

Three young scamps sabotage the Nazi occupiers, thereby setting the stage for a Soviet triumph. Made twenty-five years after World War II ended, this animated pageant still has the pungent tang of propaganda.

The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.

Two dogs, one stray the other well-off, become friends.

White little bear hides from his mother friendship with a human who smells smoke.

Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.

A modern adaptation of the Charles Perrault's famous fairytale.

Short Soviet puppet animation based on Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

Murzilka the journalist is trying to find the reason why the boy from famous painting failed in school.

A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.

A schoolboy gets into a fairy tale with the help of a librarian and DIY book. But life in the magical land is not as easy as it seems.

A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh ("A Little One") suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children in a Swedish family. The acute sense of solitude makes him desperately want a dog, but before he gets one, he "invents" a friend - the very Karlson who lives upon the roof. So typical for the Russian culture spirit of mischief, which is, actually, never punished, and the notion that relative welfare not necessarily means happiness made the book by Astrid Lindgren and its TV adaptations tremendously popular in the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia and vice versa - somewhat alienated to the Western reader and viewer (see User's comments below). However, both the book and the cartoon are truly universal - entertaining and funny for the children and thought-provoking and somewhat sad for grownups.

A Soviet animation short ased on a Russian national fairy tale.

The tale of the formidable king Durandai, who decided to marry the beautiful Queen Tetyokha, about the blacksmith Sila and the blind girl Talani

"Little red riding hood" is a classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation". Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

Clever boy pioneer Kolja Homjakov takes part in an interplanetary flight of the professor of astronomy Bobrov. The problem of expedition - to find the lost rocket which had an accident at research of a lunar surface.

The Lost Letter (Russian: Пропа́вшая гра́мота, Propavshaya gramota), or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet cel-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

The youngest son in a family inherits only a cat when his parents die. It turns out that it is a quite peculiar cat...

A Soviet animation short ased on a Russian national fairy tale.

The tale of the formidable king Durandai, who decided to marry the beautiful Queen Tetyokha, about the blacksmith Sila and the blind girl Talani

"Little red riding hood" is a classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation". Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

Clever boy pioneer Kolja Homjakov takes part in an interplanetary flight of the professor of astronomy Bobrov. The problem of expedition - to find the lost rocket which had an accident at research of a lunar surface.

The Lost Letter (Russian: Пропа́вшая гра́мота, Propavshaya gramota), or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet cel-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

The youngest son in a family inherits only a cat when his parents die. It turns out that it is a quite peculiar cat...

Based on the Chinese folk tale. Long ago, three brothers Liu lived in China. They were so similar that even their own mother discerned them on colored ribbons. The first brother could command fire, the second could drink the sea and return it back, and a third knew the language of birds, animals and fish.

It's springtime again and all the animals of the forest rejoice.

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.

Animated Soviet Propaganda. The story of the invasion of Russia, during the revolution, by foreign troops from the United States, Canada, the U.K., Japan, Czechoslavakia and Poland.

Based on the Buryats - Mongolian fairy tale by Malyarevsky. Once a brave and honest shepherd Bair rescued from the claws of a black vulture a magic bird. The bird thanked the shepherd by presenting him with a magic chest. All that fell into this chest, it became new and doubled. The greedy merchant Galsan heard about the wonderful gift of the bird and deceived the chest from Bair.

Soviet cartoon film, filmed in 1953 by the director-animator Olga Khodataeva based on the Russian folk tale.

It takes place in the forest. Two Wolverines came to move to the new location plaguing. Sly Fox pretended to be their friend, to steal a boat with their belongings. Smart Woodpecker helped wolverine.

"The Tale of the Old Oak Tree" was filmed in USSR in 1949.

Beautiful screen version of the northern fairy tale tells about the courage of Itte. A brave boy goes through the cold expanse to return the sun. The sun had stolen an evil, insidious and terrible monster and the northern peoples were left without the warmth and light of its rays. But Itte does not retreat before difficulties, and, showing his courage, returns the Sun to his native land. Beasts and birds rejoice and dance thanks to the boy.

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

It is a New Year fairy tale on a wonderful fur-tree. The basic idea is to show, that the fairy tale became true, that something about what we dreamed became the reality. It is reached by an opposition of fantasy and modern technics. Source : animator.ru

Animated adaptation of Russian folk tale "Zhernovki".

Two short stories about space

Soviet cartoon, The Dog and the Cat, from Lev Atamanov.

A cyclist goes for a ride racing all kinds of vehicles only to be passed by a centipede.

Two dogs react to each other at a fence.

Two stories about the chicken who knew only two words and about three masters of disguise.

An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.

A husband becomes unfaithful to his wife, and buys a bouquet of flowers which he wants to give an another woman. But that woman doesn't come to the meeting, so he tries to get rid of the bouquet.

A medic gets help from the animal kingdom to reach his patients.

Adaptation of a fairy tale Korney Chukovsky. As big and strong animals, succumbing to panic, obey little cockroach.

Soviet animated cartoon film of 1946 based on a fairy tale by Korney Chukovsky, created by directors Leonid Amalrik and Vladimir Polkovnikov. United with similar creative aspirations, the directors found their own style.

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.

It is a dramatic story which happened in Antarctic where the penguins come for summer to raise their baby birds.

An injured duckling attempts to survive the cold winter.

A gambling-dependent old man loses all the water on earth condemning all living beings to death from drought.

The Screen version of the fairy tale of K.Chukovskogo about malicious robber Barmaley and brave children little Tanechka and little Vanechka. They go to Africa to put an end to evil deeds of Barmaley. With the help of doctor Aibolit they manage to win it.

In Voronezh in Lizyukova Street lives a kitten Vasily, who constantly has to flee from domestic dogs, and therefore he dreams of becoming such a beast that everyone would be afraid of.

Once the boy Vova went off to ride a bicycle and disappeared for the whole day. His puppy was waiting for his master at the door, but he did not come. An adult dog, Barbos, passed by, who decided to ask the puppy why he was so sad. Since there was still nothing to do, he decided to help his little friend to find the boy. Soon they came on his trail and, thanks to their scent, were able to recreate all the events that occurred this day.

Soviet propaganda cartoon contrasting the alleged lies of capitalism, depicted as a charlatan prophet, with the alleged achievements of the Soviet working people.

Nu, pogodi! is a Soviet/Russian animated series produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The series was created in 1969 and became a popular cartoon of the Soviet Union. The latest episode was produced in 2006. The original film language is Russian but very little speech is used. The series follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic wolf [Volk], trying to catch a hare [Zayats]. The series has additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the wolf's plans.

A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. When the ship flies over the native house of the Cosmonaut, the ring of the alarm clock which the Grandfather winded up sounds and the Cosmonaut wakes up.

Animators from the distant future fly to another planet to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Soviet animation. Once in a meteor shower, the spaceship makes an emergency landing on an unknown planet, where live monsters with the ability to transform. Unknown formless creatures attack the ship and take away all things from there, along with films on which were recorded cartoons for display. While watching the collection of the best Soviet cartoons, monsters, being very impressed by what they saw, turn into cartoon characters, after which they decide to make peace with people and help them get everything back in place.

Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.

In each episode Khoma and his friend Gopher meet different troubles and they manage it thanks to their friendship.

A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space.

A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mountain passage.

An eccentric stunt sports comedy, which makes fun of those guys who know sports only on television, and think that they can do everything they see on the screen, although they themselves do not even try and consider themselves, and moreover, in all sports whether or not champions.

A rich and ignorant cat loses her big house in a fire. Only then she realizes that a friend in need is a friend indeed.

The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.

Bubble, Straw and Bast Shoe look for firewood. Bubble doesn’t want to work but when, on their way back he shifts the share of firewood on the shoulders of the Bast Shoe, he gets in a trouble – the wind blows him off. After some adventures Bubble is rescued and reforms.

A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".

A medic gets help from the animal kingdom to reach his patients.

Sparrow was invited to a banquet. He came and at first tried to drink only soda. The neighbor noticed this and was indignant. Tamada poured a glass for sparrow and made him drink, then poured more and more. Then the guests began to sing, dance, and all ended by beating dishes. Absolutely drunk sparrow was getting home staggering and with loud singing, than woke up all the neighbors. He smashed to bits someone's nestling and fell. Sparrow was summoned to the public court, where former guests accused him of all sins.

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The cartoon makes fun of popular stereotypes about the Russians and the Americans.

The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.

Romeo and Juliet

Cartoon by Yefim Gamburg

It is a continuation of adventures of the bear cub who searches for the friend and finds him on the Polar station during the New year.

Three young scamps sabotage the Nazi occupiers, thereby setting the stage for a Soviet triumph. Made twenty-five years after World War II ended, this animated pageant still has the pungent tang of propaganda.

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.

The film is based myths of the ancient Peruvians, recreated Soviet ethnographers Yuri Beryozkin on drawings Indians Mochica. The action takes place 1,500 years ago. Legend tells of two brothers, demigods, brought the sacred frog. Growing up, the brothers went to the human world, giving them a lot of happiness and a refuge from the evil monsters. But one of the monsters Rikuay survived the battle with his brothers. He deceived his younger brother, went to his centipede, which led him to ally Rica - a witch, who asked his younger brother to give people a weapon that start killing people. Only the intervention of the gods, and his older brother saved people from total destruction

White little bear hides from his mother friendship with a human who smells smoke.

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Based on a mongolian tale.

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and outsmart the forest witch Baba Yaga.

This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The film also showcases Sergei Yuktevich's fondness for formal experimentation. It is nominally adapted from Mayakovsky's play "The Bedbug" and his screenplay "Forget All About the Fireplace."

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed with the Cook Travel Company to any boat or in the hotel was not "blacks, Malays and other riff-raff." Arriving in Leningrad, Twister and his family stayed at the hotel "Engleterre", and everything went smoothly until they saw on one of the floors the guest from Africa.

A Cloud in Love is a unique film based on a script by a Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran (who lived in exile in Soviet Russia). It’s an allegorical story about an evil desert spirit who tries to destroy an oasis that is tendered by beautiful Aishe. Luckily, a Cloud falls in love with her and protects the oasis, although it costs him a life. It features mixed technique (puppets, marionettes, and hand-drawn animation).

A Soviet Russian animated propaganda piece about a dog that inherits a fortune and becomes an influential capitalist snob.

A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...

A young piglet in trouble.

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A schoolboy meets all the undone by him homework's heroes in their country.

A Soviet Russian animated propaganda piece about a dog that inherits a fortune and becomes an influential capitalist snob.

It is a New Year's fairy tale about Ded Moroz who hastened with the gifts for children's holiday, and about the Wolf who tried to prevent him to do it.

Hare carries bag of apples for 4 sonnies and lovely daughter. But along the way he gives all apples to forest dwellers leaving his children hungry.

The tale of a little toy ship, Aurora, that defies entire fleets of evil Capitalist warmongers.

This film was made in reaction to revanchism fear that Germany would reunite and seek revenge on Europe and the USSR for World War II. A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall, erected by the USSR between East and West Berlin in 1961.

Volume 3 (1979-1985): "Tale of Tales", "Hunt", "Cabaret", "Last Hunt", "There Was a Dog", "Travels of an Ant", "Lion and Bull", "Wolf and Calf", "Old Stair", "King's Sandwich", "About Sidorov Vova".

On the motives of Saltikov-Shedrin’s fairy tale, the film derides aimless and senseless being.

Poetic screen version of the story of I.Turgenev about mutual relations of landowner’s old wife and her mute yard keeper Gerasim. About Gerasim's attachment to a dog with nickname Mu-mu.

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

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Soviet girl has met Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford during their visit to Moscow in 1927 and dreams of going to Hollywood. She falls asleep and her dream comes to true.

Soviet propaganda cartoon about the ongoing revolution in China.

The spread of the Soviet revolution drives the blood sucking international capitalists to desperation, so they take their wealth and fly off into space, but even then cannot escape the wrath of the wronged workers.

Educational film about March 8th, about the situation of rural women.

Visionary satire by Nikolai Khodataev.

Soviet propaganda cartoon about the ongoing revolution in China.

The spread of the Soviet revolution drives the blood sucking international capitalists to desperation, so they take their wealth and fly off into space, but even then cannot escape the wrath of the wronged workers.

Soviet propaganda cartoon about the ongoing revolution in China.

The spread of the Soviet revolution drives the blood sucking international capitalists to desperation, so they take their wealth and fly off into space, but even then cannot escape the wrath of the wronged workers.

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

The Film is made after the motives of the same Arabian fairy tale. The main character - the woodcutter Ali-Baba casually finds a gold treasure belonging to robbers in a cave. Thanks to his cunning it relieves the population of the city of severe robbers.

As in any country's own history books, here Russia is gloriously painted against all comers with the then-800-year-old Moscow, "The Great City of Lenin", as its beating heart. Notable leaders are traditionally honored while commonfolk and enemies are suggested through animals - dutiful horses in old wartime, meek puppies 'neath the Provisional Government and suffocative ravens at the dawn of WWII. A love letter to the capital indeed, To You Moscow also functions as a quickie review of Russian history.

1984 (Soviet Union)

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Short Soviet puppet animation based on Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

Surprising master Lefty, who grounded a steel flea. This feature-length cutout-animated film from the Soviet Union is based on the story of the same name by the 19th century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov. It was directed by the "Patriarch of Soviet animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano, at the Soyuzmult film studio.

The Nazi war machine, portrayed as a pig-snouted, fanged ogre, is shown rampaging through Europe.

Two dogs, Polkan and Shavka, watched a flock of sheep by the river. Suddenly, they notice a hare, chase after him and run into the forest, where they meet face-to-face with three wolves. Shavka, chickening out, backs away, and the brave Polkan takes the fight. In a fierce fight, he manages to defeat one wolf, but from wounds he loses consciousness.

A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.

Soviet propaganda cartoon made shortly after the German invasion, promising victory against the fascist invaders.

The tale of the little badger, who did not want to learn to produce their own food and dig burrows. And once, when he told his father that he's hurt his back, and he played and lost, he realized how much need to be able to survive. Because such small animals as he is in the woods lurks so many dangers... And, above all, wolf!

Humorous ode to maize, glorifying the dignity of maize in agriculture.

The animation film is made on Samuil Marshak's adaptation of Russian folk tale "Teremok"