Władysław Starewicz Movies

Jeannot, a young boy living in the countryside with his mother and grandfather, ventures into the forest at night to pick a fern flower before the...

An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper...

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He...

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first...

Based on Gogol's story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a...

A couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them.

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long,...

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée

A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest...

Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she...

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester,...

A dog's shipboard honeymoon voyage takes a turn for the worse when a fierce storm hits the ship.

When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a...

The film tells the story of Judas and Satan wandering the world in search of a virgin who could become the mother of the new Evil.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.

Based on the story "The Man from the Restaurant" by I. Shmelev. The creators of the movie are unknown. The movie is preserved without inscriptions.

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts