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About Crayfish
(Про раков)
Category: Animation
Genre: Animals, Drama, Fairy-tale, Folk, Romance
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This is a very sad tale about love between a girl and a monster.
(Про раков)
Category: Animation
Genre: Animals, Drama, Fairy-tale, Folk, Romance
Status: online!
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This is a very sad tale about love between a girl and a monster.
Boy Who Cried Wolf
(Мальчик, который кричал волк)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Educational, Fairy-tale, Folk
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Based on a Russian fairy-tale.
(Мальчик, который кричал волк)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Educational, Fairy-tale, Folk
Status: online!
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Based on a Russian fairy-tale.
The Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova
(Цвет граната)
Category: Film
Genre: Folk
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Steeped in religious iconography, The Color of Pomegranates is a deeply spiritual testament to director Sergei Parajanov’s fascination with Armenian folk art and culture. It is also a controversial work, which, coupled with another of his films, Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors, led to his arrest and imprisonment in a Soviet Gulag for four years. The Soviets insisted he was guilty of selling gold and icons illegally and committing “homosexual acts.” In reality, his only crime was offending the tenets of socialist realism, both in his daring surrealistic form and in his choice of subject matter. While many of the popular films of this era in Soviet cinema were largely propaganda designed to serve the ideological interests of the regime, Parajanov chose to focus on the ethnography and spirituality of the Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia.
(Цвет граната)
Category: Film
Genre: Folk
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Steeped in religious iconography, The Color of Pomegranates is a deeply spiritual testament to director Sergei Parajanov’s fascination with Armenian folk art and culture. It is also a controversial work, which, coupled with another of his films, Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors, led to his arrest and imprisonment in a Soviet Gulag for four years. The Soviets insisted he was guilty of selling gold and icons illegally and committing “homosexual acts.” In reality, his only crime was offending the tenets of socialist realism, both in his daring surrealistic form and in his choice of subject matter. While many of the popular films of this era in Soviet cinema were largely propaganda designed to serve the ideological interests of the regime, Parajanov chose to focus on the ethnography and spirituality of the Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia.
Crane Feathers
(Журавлиные перья)
Category: Animation
Genre: Fairy-tale, Folk
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Based on a Japanese folk tale.
(Журавлиные перья)
Category: Animation
Genre: Fairy-tale, Folk
Status: online!
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Based on a Japanese folk tale.
Dream
(Сон )
Category: Animation
Genre: Folk
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It is a fantasy on the theme of the classical literature of 19-th century – creativity of Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky. The childhood in the manor of noble family, dreams and youthful impulses, and returning in habitual family way, an old age, death. A life is like a dream.
(Сон )
Category: Animation
Genre: Folk
Status: online!
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It is a fantasy on the theme of the classical literature of 19-th century – creativity of Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky. The childhood in the manor of noble family, dreams and youthful impulses, and returning in habitual family way, an old age, death. A life is like a dream.
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
(Вечера на Хуторе близ Диканьки)
Category: Film
Genre: Fairy-tale, Folk, Horror, Romance
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Based on the story “Christmas Eve” by Russian and Ukranian writer Nikolai Gogol. The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action takes place both in a village of Dikanka in the Ukraine and at the palace of a Russian Empress. Blacksmith Vacula has enraged the devil himself: in a church he painted the devil’s figure in such a way that even the Hell’s inhabitants could not help laughing. Solokha, Vacula’s mother, is known to be a witch, not averse to flying on a besom. Vacula’s sweetheart, Oksana, demands for a Christmas present a pair of tcherevichki (shoes) that the Empress wears. Only then she will agree to marry Vacula. And the devil promises to help the blacksmith get the Empress’s shoes, on condition that Vacula sells him his soul. Meanwhile, Christmas is almost here. © Gorky film studio, 1961.
(Вечера на Хуторе близ Диканьки)
Category: Film
Genre: Fairy-tale, Folk, Horror, Romance
Status: online!
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Based on the story “Christmas Eve” by Russian and Ukranian writer Nikolai Gogol. The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action takes place both in a village of Dikanka in the Ukraine and at the palace of a Russian Empress. Blacksmith Vacula has enraged the devil himself: in a church he painted the devil’s figure in such a way that even the Hell’s inhabitants could not help laughing. Solokha, Vacula’s mother, is known to be a witch, not averse to flying on a besom. Vacula’s sweetheart, Oksana, demands for a Christmas present a pair of tcherevichki (shoes) that the Empress wears. Only then she will agree to marry Vacula. And the devil promises to help the blacksmith get the Empress’s shoes, on condition that Vacula sells him his soul. Meanwhile, Christmas is almost here. © Gorky film studio, 1961.
Herakles visiting Admetus
(Геракл у Адмета)
Category: Animation
Genre: Adult, Fiction, Folk
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Soviet animation based on the myth about Admetus, his wife Alcestis and Herakles, 1986
(Геракл у Адмета)
Category: Animation
Genre: Adult, Fiction, Folk
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Soviet animation based on the myth about Admetus, his wife Alcestis and Herakles, 1986
The Legend of the Surami Fortress
(Легенда о Сурамской крепости)
Category: Film
Genre: Folk, Military, People/life
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This film is in memory of the Georgian warriors of all times who had given their lives for their country. It is based on an old Georgian legend: Preparing to defend their country from the onslaught of foreign conquerors, people started building a fortress, but each time the wall had reached the roof level, it collapsed. “The wall will hold if the most handsome young man is immured in it, ” predicted a fortune-teller. And forward stepped a young man who was ready to sacrifice his life for his country. Thanks to that self-sacrifice, the fortress was erected, and nothing and no one could ever destroy it. You have to watch this movie with the right attitude. Unfortunately, without preparation, that attitude won't exist during your first viewing. The first viewing of a Paradjanov movie is only there to prepare you for the second, the deeper one.
(Легенда о Сурамской крепости)
Category: Film
Genre: Folk, Military, People/life
Status: online!
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This film is in memory of the Georgian warriors of all times who had given their lives for their country. It is based on an old Georgian legend: Preparing to defend their country from the onslaught of foreign conquerors, people started building a fortress, but each time the wall had reached the roof level, it collapsed. “The wall will hold if the most handsome young man is immured in it, ” predicted a fortune-teller. And forward stepped a young man who was ready to sacrifice his life for his country. Thanks to that self-sacrifice, the fortress was erected, and nothing and no one could ever destroy it. You have to watch this movie with the right attitude. Unfortunately, without preparation, that attitude won't exist during your first viewing. The first viewing of a Paradjanov movie is only there to prepare you for the second, the deeper one.
The Lost Letter
(Пропавшая грамота)
Category: Animation
Genre: Adult, Folk, Horror
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1945, Soyuzmultfilm. First Soviet animated feature (by some definitions). Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol about a Cossack who journeys to hell and back. Directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. Perhaps the only example of more adult-oriented animation made at the time that was not political satire. Made more remarkable by the fact that it was made during a horrible war...
(Пропавшая грамота)
Category: Animation
Genre: Adult, Folk, Horror
Status: online!
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1945, Soyuzmultfilm. First Soviet animated feature (by some definitions). Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol about a Cossack who journeys to hell and back. Directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. Perhaps the only example of more adult-oriented animation made at the time that was not political satire. Made more remarkable by the fact that it was made during a horrible war...
Masha and the Bear
(Маша и Медведь)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Comedy, Folk, New Year
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A modern cartoon with elements of classical Russian style. It's very funny and kind. :)
(Маша и Медведь)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Comedy, Folk, New Year
Status: online!
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A modern cartoon with elements of classical Russian style. It's very funny and kind. :)
Ratibor's Childhood
(Детство Ратибора)
Category: Animation
Genre: Fairy-tale, Folk, Historical, Musical
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(Детство Ратибора)
Category: Animation
Genre: Fairy-tale, Folk, Historical, Musical
Status: online!
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Russian songs
(Русские песни)
Category: Music
Genre: Comedy, Folk, Political, Pop, Propaganda
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Different Russian songs.
(Русские песни)
Category: Music
Genre: Comedy, Folk, Political, Pop, Propaganda
Status: online!
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Different Russian songs.
The Super Daughter-in-Law
(Сурерневестка)
Category: Film
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Folk, People/life, Romance
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An interesting Uzbek film dubbed in Russian and subtitled in English.
(Сурерневестка)
Category: Film
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Folk, People/life, Romance
Status: online!
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An interesting Uzbek film dubbed in Russian and subtitled in English.
The Tale of Soldier Fedot, the Daring Fellow (Cartoon)
(Про Федота-стрельца, удалого молодца)
Category: Animation
Genre: Comedy, Fairy-tale, Folk, Romance
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The Tale of Soldier Fedot, the Daring Fellow is a play poem by Russian writer and actor Leonid Filatov, written in 1985 and first published in Yunost in 1986. With a storyline based on Russian folk tales, 'Fedot' is a social and political satire on contemporary realities of life in Russia. Characters mix archaic Russian language, typical for folklore, with neologisms of modern Russian, providing additional comic effect.
(Про Федота-стрельца, удалого молодца)
Category: Animation
Genre: Comedy, Fairy-tale, Folk, Romance
Status: online!
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The Tale of Soldier Fedot, the Daring Fellow is a play poem by Russian writer and actor Leonid Filatov, written in 1985 and first published in Yunost in 1986. With a storyline based on Russian folk tales, 'Fedot' is a social and political satire on contemporary realities of life in Russia. Characters mix archaic Russian language, typical for folklore, with neologisms of modern Russian, providing additional comic effect.
Three lakes of deepest, darkest blue
(Три синих-синих озера малинового цвета)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Folk
Status: online!
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Armenfilm
(Три синих-синих озера малинового цвета)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Folk
Status: online!
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Armenfilm
To You, Moscow
(Тебе Москва)
Category: Animation
Genre: Folk, Historical
Status: online!
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This animation is dedicated to 800th anniversary of Moscow.
(Тебе Москва)
Category: Animation
Genre: Folk, Historical
Status: online!
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This animation is dedicated to 800th anniversary of Moscow.
Two merry ganders
(Два весёлых гуся)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Folk
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A short animation film about two merry ganders. :)
(Два весёлых гуся)
Category: Animation
Genre: Child / Family, Folk
Status: online!
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A short animation film about two merry ganders. :)
Viy or Spirit of Evil
(Вий)
Category: Film
Genre: Folk, Horror
Status: online!
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The film is based on the story of the same name by the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Viy is a colossal creation of simple folks imagination. The main protagonist of the film, the theology student Khoma Brutus, met him one night under some mysterious circumstances. A young woman died in the village, and poor Khoma was ordered to read the burial service over her. But that woman happened to be a witch. And Viy, the devils emissary on earth, was by the side of the deceased Khoma saw him, accompanied by his retinue of vampires and werewolves, on the third, most horrible, night of his service All the characters of this mystical story are heroes from the whimsical, twilight world, where dreams are interspersed with everyday life, reality with fantasy. The acclaimed master of fairy-tale films Alexander Ptushko directed this motion picture and staged all the special effects and stunts.
(Вий)
Category: Film
Genre: Folk, Horror
Status: online!
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The film is based on the story of the same name by the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Viy is a colossal creation of simple folks imagination. The main protagonist of the film, the theology student Khoma Brutus, met him one night under some mysterious circumstances. A young woman died in the village, and poor Khoma was ordered to read the burial service over her. But that woman happened to be a witch. And Viy, the devils emissary on earth, was by the side of the deceased Khoma saw him, accompanied by his retinue of vampires and werewolves, on the third, most horrible, night of his service All the characters of this mystical story are heroes from the whimsical, twilight world, where dreams are interspersed with everyday life, reality with fantasy. The acclaimed master of fairy-tale films Alexander Ptushko directed this motion picture and staged all the special effects and stunts.
When the Sand Will Rise...
(Когда песок взойдёт...)
Category: Animation
Genre: Drama, Folk
Status: online!
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A film based on an ancient Russian ballad which opens a veil onto the world of old Slavic mythology. It is a traditional story of the struggle of good and evil, personified in images of the family and its destroyer, the werewolf. The art direction is based on Slavic folk art.
(Когда песок взойдёт...)
Category: Animation
Genre: Drama, Folk
Status: online!
Hosts:
A film based on an ancient Russian ballad which opens a veil onto the world of old Slavic mythology. It is a traditional story of the struggle of good and evil, personified in images of the family and its destroyer, the werewolf. The art direction is based on Slavic folk art.