Soviet Animation Thread - Or Russian animation in general

[soy_king]

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.

shame that there's really only three episodes of it.

Another one I loved as a kid were the Bremen town Musicians, complete with the Soviet Three Stooges equivalent of Vitsin, Nikulin, and Margunov.

 

[Stasi]

I always like Prostokvashino when I was younger.

I don't know if Gena and Cheburashka count, technically stop-motion but they are classics nonetheless

 

[maguyver16]

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.

It's always quite interesting recognizing a story you have heard before, but told in a language you do not understand.

 

[NoReturn]

Ciggy kot is the pinnacle of animation.
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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

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

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.

Vinnepu

It's always quite interesting recognizing a story you have heard before, but told in a language you do not understand.

I'm still looking for a specific English translation of Vailisa. I can find plenty of originals, but it's hard to find a thing once-translated if you're looking for a specific version.
Anyway, here's this version of the story I'm looking for.

Her voice is adorable.

Bonus:

 

[Romeo]

Post-Soviet Russian Animation - Alexander Petrov
One of the famous animators of the Post-Soviet Russian period, he is known for his 2D animated films done entirely in pastel paintings on glass.

By using his fingertips instead of a paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It took him over two years—from March 1997 through April 1999—to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. For the shooting of the frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built, probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then attached to the IMAX camera.

The Mermaid (1997)

The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

My Love (2006)

Behind the Scenes

P.S. This should be moved to Multimedia imo.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

This one might be actually the very last soviet animation, having been worked on a released on the exact end of the union in 1991. It does however benefit from some background history.

In 1935 a frenchie made a song called Tout va très bien madame la marquise, translating to Everything is fine Madame la Marquise. The song was a sort of satire making fun of out of touch french upper class while also making fun of how people in general were unwilling to face the fact that things were not as fine as they were the last decade (the Depression had hit France, political issue, Germany was acting up, etc). Another french dude sent a letter to a friend in the USSR, then a russian poet translated it in a way that would allow for the rhymes and rhythm to still fit, and eventually it was performed in 1936 by Leonid Uteosov and his daughter in a duet and due to how Leonid was a big deal it became something of a well known tune.

The second part that needs to be known is Robert Arshavirovich Sahakyants. Born in 1950 in Baku he was a Armenian animator that was quite prolific. He mad a lot of experimental stuff, and worked on really making art and interesting animations. One of his animations is already on this thread on post #16 and you can see how he rolls. He was pretty good at making some real funky shit. And thus we get to All is Well

It is a very well done political cartoon. Extremely dense in references to current and past events having to do with Russia and the USSR. Even as a westerner with a passing understanding of the place you can get a lot of them, but only really a native or someone with a really autistic deep knowledge of the country and history would be able to catch every single one. Truly fascinating.