Soviet Animation Thread - Or Russian animation in general

[Kiwisee]

Since Return to Treasure Island’s Dr Livesey has caught the attention of the internet, I thought it would be a good time to talk about Soviet era animation.
Return to Treasure Island;

A kitten named Woof.:

Mountain of Dinosaurs:

The adventures of Lolo the Penguin (technically it’s a Russian-Japanese film, but I think it still counts):

The Mystery of the Third Planet:

There’s a lot more, but for now I think those samples should give you guys an idea of what to expect.

Here’s a list of every piece of animation produced, however many of them lack English subtitles

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

Worker and Parasite:

 

[The Luigi Player]

Soviet Animation Porn (pre-2010's) is horrifying

 

[Whatevermancer]

Too bad most soviet cartoons don't have English subtitles.

 

[Mikoyan]

The funny part is how pitch-fucking-black the tone of some of them are. Polygon's one thing because it's clearly adult oriented anti-war propaganda. But like Hedgehog in Fog has a "Guess I'll fuckin' die" scene.

 

[Kiwisee]

The funny part is how pitch-fucking-black the tone of some of them are. Polygon's one thing because it's clearly adult oriented anti-war propaganda. But like Hedgehog in Fog has a "Guess I'll fuckin' die" scene.

I found Mountain of Dinosaurs to be pretty haunting in the end because of how fast it went from 0 to 100

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Vladimir Tarasov's 1988 short animated film, Pereval. The video has english subtitles.

A starship crashed on an uninhabitate 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.

 

[TheRetardKing]

The way he walks... it's so expressive.

 

[Slav Power]

Ciggy kot is the pinnacle of animation.

 

[Kiwisee]

Here’s the English dub of “The Snow Queen”

 

[Kaktus Kompot]

Previously I posted a link in the animation thread to a site with almost every piece of Soviet/Eastern European animation there is, which, I think, would be the perfect starter for the thread. (The site also has an enormous Soviet movie collection of you're interested.)
Unfortunately for many people here, there are no subtitles, but usually they're not as vital for cartoons as for movies.

 

[millais]

Nu Pogodi is alright.

 

[Kiwisee]

Previously I posted a link in the animation thread to a site with almost every piece of Soviet/Eastern European animation there is, which, I think, would be the perfect starter for the thread. (The site also has an enormous Soviet movie collection of you're interested.)
Unfortunately for many people here, there are no subtitles, but usually they're not as vital for cartoons as for movies.

Thank you!

I’ll add it to the OP. Maybe someday there will be subtitled ones available if there’s enough interest

 

[soy_king]

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea is a pretty interesting movie, though maybe it's just bc I'm kinda autistically fascinated by Pomor culture

Nu Pogodi is alright.

How dare you sir! it's peak kino that still holds up even after fifty years

 

[maguyver16]

This is my favorite version of Alice, from 1982

Also a classic, Hedgehog in the Fog

The way he walks... it's so expressive.

Does anyone else get Far Side vibes from this film?

 

[Kaktus Kompot]

I wanted to post a spooky cartoon for upcoming Halloween, but despite there being many to choose from, they either get scrubbed off youtube or don't have subtitles. So, I'm posting this one instead. It's more trippy than spooky, but it's a classic.

 

[TV's Adam West]

How do you niggas not bring up Captain Pronin yet?

Captain Pronin 2 - Pronin in America [English subtitles]

The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSO54E43YUSome Russian keywords for anyone searching YouTube: Капитан Пронин 2: в Америке

youtu.be

 

[soy_king]

The way he walks... it's so expressive.

Having watched Treasure Island recently, it's very clear that it only exists because of the loosened restrictions of glasnost, so it's only debatably Soviet.

The genius behind Soviet animation is that it still maintained some standards of decency, and while it sucks that said decency was a result of censorship, it still beats the profligate degeneracy we see in most modern Western culture.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

Few more classics.

Boniface's Vacation

Adventures of Leopold the Cat

There's some definite class struggle overtones to this one. The cat is obviously a nomenklatura member and the mice represent the lumpenproletariat, devoid of class consciousness who lash out rather than organizing their community.

 

[Force and Character]

Also a classic, Hedgehog in the Fog

That owl used to scare the hell out of me as a kid.

Another good one is Russian Winnie Pooh, adapted from Boris Zakhoder's very neat translation of the books.