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A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films in ANIMATED SOVIET PROPAGANDA span sixty years of Soviet history (1924 - 1984), and have never been available before in the U.S.
An unemployed American gets a job in a shooting gallery as a live target. The greedy capitalist owner charges patrons double for the chance to shoot at a human being.
A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mountain passage.
A fantasy that space preserves images of the past.
Lonely old people make themselves a snowy granddaughter. Cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale in the style of illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.
A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space.
A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. When the ship flies over the native house of the Cosmonaut, the ring of the alarm clock which the Grandfather winded up sounds and the Cosmonaut wakes up.
After training at the dolphin reconnaissance school, the dolphin Tristan was sent on an important mission to a secret military base of the USSR to obtain information about the Russians' new strategic weapon - a submarine that transforms into an airplane. After receiving a message that an unidentified object was discovered in Soviet territorial waters, moving towards a secret base, the Soviet command ordered to urgently send an experienced special agent, the dolphin Isolde, to intercept it.
This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The film also showcases Sergei Yuktevich's fondness for formal experimentation. It is nominally adapted from Mayakovsky's play "The Bedbug" and his screenplay "Forget All About the Fireplace."
Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.