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Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody struggle for the crown for a century.
The legendary commander of the Civil War, the winner of Wrangel arrives in the capital at the call of Stalin. In the capital, he is perplexed to learn that the Politburo at a special meeting decided to force him to operate on a long-standing ulcer. The attending physician is convinced that the operation is not needed, but, obeying party discipline, the old Bolshevik lies on the operating table.
The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to the kind girl Annunziata. The scientist becomes a victim of palace intrigues and intrigues. His own shadow, which appeared to the hero, pushes him to a cowardly act - the rejection of the princess. The shadow wins the heart of the princess and wants to destroy Christian-Theodore. But, as it is supposed to be in a real fairy tale, everything ends happily. The hero is helped by Annunziata's love and the sympathy of the town's inhabitants for the scientist who wants to make everyone happy.
Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.
A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
A certain Chumakov addressed the People's Judge Kavelin. He brought a statement of claim to his son, Sergey Gribanov, in which he demands care, love and alimony from him. Chumakov, who left his family when the boy was two years old, is now afraid to be alone, because Sergei's stepfather has become a real, loving father... Judge Kavelin has to figure out this difficult, but unfortunately, life-changing situation.
A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.
Based on the short story of the same name by Yuri Kazakov.
Parrot, Monkey and Elephant are excited to understand how long their friend Boa is. They finally arrive to the result, though it is measured in quite a strange fashion.
The gloomy dog Gregory no longer wants to be an "evil dog". Philosophical puppet cartoon about the search for happiness.
Once on a summer day, decided to play the Hare, the Bear cub and the Squirrel. Traditional forestry games have bothered them, as in the forest everything is so familiar. So they decided to hunt as if they were in the jungle. The Bear said that he would be a hunter, and the Hare is a wild beast. The Squirrel was assigned the role of a dog. But the dog from the squirrel came out some very soft, and in general the imagination of the squirrel is rather weak. She does not like to pretend and fantasize.
How the king of animals decided to learn the mosquito language, but then convinced himself that everyone in the forest spoke the same language - lion. Based on the fairy tale by R. Baumgol.
The baby elephant fell ill, his tooth ached and he did not go to school, but remained at home with a bandage. Camel comes to visit a friend, and then a cunning cat.
A soldier was returning from the war. On the way, he stopped by a certain old woman Melanya and her little old man. The old woman turned out to be greedy and, citing a complete lack of food, refused to feed the soldier. Then the experienced soldier offered to cook porridge from an axe.
A cartoon for adults about how a chicken and a penguin accidentally met in a barnyard. And everything was fine with them and they had chickens, but evil tongues prevented their happiness. One day, when the penguin was playing blind man's buff with the chickens, he accidentally kissed the cow, and the neighbors saw this as treason and whispered to the chicken, and she drove the penguin away.
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 handling of puppets and decor created a rare elegant beauty. Being known as the worlds greatest puppet animation director, many people in the west forget that he was animator too.
The tale about the wolf-proprietor and the inhibited animals without their own opinion.
An elephant and a camel went hiking and got lost in the summer forest. The finale of the puppet trilogy based on the fairy tale by David Samoylov.