Russian Language List

Well-Known Soviet Animated Films

• Мойдодыр (1954)

  
  In a fantasy based on Kroney Chukovsky's poem of the same name, a washbasin confronts a small boy who refuses to wash.

• Малыш и Карлсон (1968), Карлсон вернулся (1970)

  
  A seven-year-old boy is befriended by Karlsson, a chubby little man who lives in a little house on the roof of his apartment building in Stockholm. Based on the stories by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

• Умка (1969)

  
  A polar bear cub named Umka makes friends with a Chukchi boy. When the humans leave, Umka is lonely and wants to find his friend.

• Умка ищет друга (1970)

  
  Umka, unknown to his mother, goes to a polar station and manages to get onto a helicopter to to searching for friend the boy.

• Фильм, фильм, фильм (1970)

  
  A humorous look at the processing of writing a screenplay, getting it approved, and shooting it.

• Как львенок и черепаха пели песню (1974)

  
  A lion cub and a huge turtle make friends and sing a song together while relaxing on the seashore.

• Трое из Простоквашино (1978, 1980)

  
  When a little boy's mother won't let him keep a stray cat he has brought home, he and the cat run away to live in an abandoned house in the country.

• Тайна Третьей Планеты (1981)

  
  A professor and his daughter travel on a space ship hunting for specimens for the Moscow Zoo. They meet with intrigue and adventure along the way. Based on a science fiction story by Kir Bulychev.

• Жил-был пёс (1982)

  
  A elderly watchdown in Ukraine fails to stop a burglar and is kicked out. There he meets his old enemy the wolf who helps him get back in his master's good graces. Grateful, the dog invites the wolf to a wedding.

• Приключения поросенка Фунтика (1986)

  
  A piglet escapes from the rapacious Madam Belladonna who is exploiting him in a sideshow. He meets up with some traveling entertainers who help him escape the detectives which she has hired to bring him back.