Władysław Starewicz Movies

Formerly Prince Tchao-sin loved Princess Hadjuin-li, but the wicked Lao-Tchang opposed their happiness. Eager to escape him, the two lovers set out...

Aurélie, a fly, lives in the countryside with her uncle Anatole, a beetle. One day, while stealing honey, she is caught by a bee but saved by...

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...

An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

While the twelve strokes of midnight slowly sound in the night and the lights go out in the windows of old Montmartre, a devil is born in a puddle of...

A little girl tries to help her mother with the aid of an agile monkey.

The Country Rat visits his friend the Town Rat, but finds that life in the great metropolis is rather too hectic (and dangerous - there's a live cat...

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...

Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

Not finished.

A little girl working as a carnival dancer is given a gift of a caterpillar as a joke. She spares the caterpillar's life, and becomes the Queen of...

A clockmaker’s daughter daydreams of a magic world inside a clock.

The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typical style of making amusing films appropriate for...

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...

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.

This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both...

A reconstruction of mating rituals of stag beetles

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