Yuri Norstein Movies

Alder uncovers not only the life and works of the elusive Cold War soviet master, but also sheds light on the Soviet animation regime.

In 1980, renowned Russian animators Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova began production on a beautiful stop-motion film called The Overcoat....

A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The...

A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying...

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping...

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

An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work.

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

A green crocodile who loves flowers and leaves falls in love with a pretty cow.

Tale about schoolchildren who are preparing for the New Year and lisping goblin who can't pronounce words of children's holiday song.

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed...

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

Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid...

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...

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

Yuriy Norshteyn, Russia’s most renowned animator, has crafted many brilliant works, including his award-winning Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in...

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

A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I...

A documentary about the Ghibli Museum. It features Goro Miyazaki speaking with Isao Takahata about the "charm" of the museum and its various...