Yuri Norstein Movies

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...

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684...

Short soviet animated movie about a girl who wants a dog, while her mother does not approve. The girl then starts playing with her mitten, pretending...

Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times...

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

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...

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

A circus lion goes on holiday to Africa, but his circus skills doesn't let him be. Based on the tale of the Czech writer Milos Macourek "Boniface...

Second animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Cheburashka wishes Gena the Crocodile a happy birthday and gives him a toy helicopter as a gift. After...

Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka decide to go to the sea on vacation. Shapoklyak steals their train tickets, so they are kicked off the train. On...

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

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

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the...

6 Films of legendary russian animation master Yuriy Norshteyn are now fully 2K restored in Steelbook! Blu-ray&DVD

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

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film “I walk through Moscow”. At this time, Shpalikov...

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

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.

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