Yuri Norstein Movies

The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.

The history of Russian animated films.

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian...

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

A poetic novel for adults about the love of a mother to her child and how she always worries for him.

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.

The grandchildren of the Old Cedar - cones and young shoots - fight the forest fire, protecting their grandfather, and defeat the fire.

About how the pike settled next to the beaver dam and lay in wait for the beaver cubs. In response, the beavers built an underwater vehicle to drive...

This is a somewhat ironic, but very informative story about the origin, development and decline of the Greek Olympiad tradition, set out with the...

A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and...

One day, the Cuckoo left the clock and temporarily flew away to the forest on business. Her neighbors are different animals, and they decided to help...

The screen version of the Saltykov-Shchedrin tale about how two complacent generals miraculously found themselves on an uninhabited island. How a...

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films...

About the attitude of children towards elderly people and about a magic umbrella which changed the ordinary world into a fairy tale.

A short documentary about the life and career of cinematographer Georgy Rerberg.

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...