Władysław Starewicz Movies

Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz.

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...

Not finished.

The frogs have a democracy, but they beseech Jupiter to send them a king. Jupiter can hardly believe this amphibian foolishness, so he sends them a...

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

The Mascot serenades a lady dog. Another dog that listened and liked the song, wants to imprison Mascot so that he sings in his house.

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,...

Alcoholism and its Ill-Effects was considered to be one of the most popular science propaganda (or educational) films produced in Russia before the...

The old Lion King, oblivious to the fact that he has become the laughing stock of his Royal household, dreams of more heroic days. Meanwhile, his...

A bear, a rabbit and a fox decide to form a band and play for the animals of the forest.

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 Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...

In an animal school in the heart of Africa a giraffe wonders about the trip to Paris.

A reconstruction of mating rituals of stag beetles

The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee