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Masters of Russian animation
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Some info about the compilation:
each DVD holds around 10 animations from couple minutes to half an our in duration. The bigger part of them have won international animation contests etc. Language is Russian, but they are subtitled in English. Usually its not non pop or commercial. on the other hand at that time there were no commercial products in SSRS at all=) but i mean that its an art. Below I have posted names and some info/feedback's about the animations.. Even thought its a lot to download, i believe that its worth to broaden the horizon of animation art for a real lover of this visual art..
DVD #1
An extraordinary collection of Russia's most important animated short films by Russia's world renowned directors. Winners of the top prizes at Cannes, Lille, Tour, Venice, Annecy, London, Zagreb, Moscow, Krakow, Melbourne, New York and Ottawa.
Story of One Crime - Director: Fyodor Khitruk (1962)
1962 marked the directorial debut of Fyodor Khitruk, the distinguished animator of some of the greatest animation ever produced in Russia. One of the first animated films made by Soyuzmultfilm for adults. Story of one Crime ushered in a new era of Russian animation by taking up social themes and expounding on them with distinctive eloquence. The Film tells the story of the "little man" and seems quite ordinary - But it is told with a mischievous sharp wit.
Man in the Frame - Director: Fyodor Khitruk (1966)
Many in the Russian animation industry are still amazed that Man in the Frame was ever produced, not to mention approved and widely distributed in the USSR. Khitruk had for several years wanted to make a film which openly critiqued bureaucrats instead of disguising them as bears or beavers in children's fairy tales. Innovative visuals were created with collage and dramatized by masterful use of music.
My Green Crocodile - Director: Vadim Kurchevsky (1966)
One of the first films directed by the late Vadim Kurchevsky. An experienced artist, he began work at Soyuzmultfilm in 1957as an art director in the studio's stop motion department. By the mid-'60s Soyuzmultfilm was already known internationally for stop motion films produced for children. Kurchevsky began to use these same techniques to address adult viewers and to make films about modern-day problems. My Green Crocodile abounds in metaphors, which tell of unusual love and th courage of commitment.
There Lived Kozyavin - Director: Andrei Khrjanovsky, (1966)
who had just graduated from the Soviet State Film School (VGIK). Khrjanovsky who began his career at Soyuzmultfim working for Fyodor Khitruk, represented the new type of erudite director who emerged during this period; an intellectual connoisseur of world art, utterly irreverent of of the animation industry's previous artistic and literary constraints. There Lived Kozyavin, made the same year as Man In The Frame
Mountain Of Dinosaurs - Director: Rasa Stautmane (1967)
Was the second feature by Rasa Strautmane, a woman director born in Latvia. The story was visually light and simple. Soviet censors did not recognize that in the little tale of a shell that protected a baby dinosaur so well that it suffocated him, audiences would find parallels with the stifling state care of the individual.
Passion of Spies - Director: Yefim Gamburg (1967)
The second feature directed by Yefim Gamburg, an artist who began working at Soyuzmultfilm in 1955 and animated many of the best children's poems, fairy tales and songs. He turned his attention to adults with "Passions of Spies," reviewing dozens of Soviet spy and detective films to make Soyuzmultfilm's first spoof. He selected the most stereotypical spy movie plots and characters, all well known to Soviet audiences. Soviet censors were so nervous about the film that they immediately sent it to the film club at Lubyanka (KGB Headquarters) to test the political waters. A high ranking general loved it -- and personally thanked Gamburg for "destroying the established stereotype of the 'wooden' Soviet intelligence." Made during a period of Soviet world power, the film was never officially shown abroad until after perestroika.
Glass Harmonica - Director: Andrei Khjanovsky (1968)
The state comes into confrontation with the artist, who gives new vision to the masses, and shows them a different horizon. "Glass Harmonica" was shelved by Soviet censors who -- not surprisingly -- found it ideologically disturbing. It was finally released after perestroika. "Glass Harmonica" was the first animated film scored by the late legendary Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who was to collaborate with Khrjanovsky on more than half of his films. The animators Yulo-Ilmar Sooster and Yuri Nolyev-Sobolev, were among the most important artists of the Soviet underground. Before finding refuge at Soyuzmultfilm, they participated at the famous and controversial Manege (opposite the Kremlin) exhibit of underground art which was closed down by Khruschev and condemned by Soviet press.
Ball Of Yarn - Director: Nikolai Serebriakov (1968)
A graduate of the Muhina School of Art (Leningrad), Serebriakov worked in theatre and cinema before joining Soyuzmultfilm. He bravely took the stop motion technique in new directions, using numerous textures and collages to give his films special artistic beauty. The poetic fairy tale "Ball of Yarn" explored deep philosophical ideas through unusual imagery.
Singing Teacher - Director: Anatoly Petrov (1968)
A mini-film which marked the directorial debut of the veteran artist and animator . Petrov used color pencil drawings to create the film's graphic look. This short film brought him great respect and recognition of Soviet audiences; they knew well about.
Film, Film, Film - Director: Fyodor Khitruk (1968)
Won Wide acclaim at home and abroad and included a parody of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terible. Khirtruk was widely respected in the former USSR and used his celerity status to guide and protect tlented newcomers duringthe Soviet era - like Eisenstein, whom he once met. Filmmakers from all over the world can recognize their own problems in the 20 minute comic masterpiece.
Running time ~ 2 hours 20 minutes. Original Russian Audio with English subtitles
----------------------
"Sets stunning new standards in fantasy and beauty while demonstrating a remarkable ability to impart values without resorting to violence."
-Laurence Vittes, The Hollywood Reporter
"The Beauty and the Beast - which hews closer to the original story than did Disney's - is a refurbished version of the glamorous Russian animated 1952 film many of today's parents viewed on TV as kids. New recorded celeb voices (Amy Irving, Tim Curry) complete this 14-karat jewel"
-Moira McCormick, TV Guide
"These handsome shorts and featurettes offer new takes on familiar fairy tales, as well as an introduction to some lesser-known Russian stories... the result is an often enchanting sequence of visuals that delights the eye..."
-Charles Solomon, The Los Angeles Times
------------------------
DVD #2
- Armoire
- Ballerina on the boat
- Battle at Kerzhenets
- Butterfly
- Contact
- Crane Feathers
- Firing range
- Fox and Rabbit
- Hedgehog in the Fog
- Heron and Crane
- Island
- Season
DVD #3
(1997)
An extraordinary collection of award-winning animated short films by Russia's world-renowned directors and artists.
Winners of the top prizes at Annecy, Cannes, Colombo, Delhi, Espinho, Grijon, Hiroshima, Huesca, Kiev, Krakow, Lille, London, Mamaia, Melbourne, Moscow, New York, Oberhausen, Odense, Ottawa, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tampere, Tours, Venice and Zagreb. Presented in anthology format for the first time.
Films Included In This Volume Are:
Tale of Tales: Yuri Norstein
Hunt: Eduard Nazarov
Last Hunt: Alexander Karavayev
There Was A Dog: Eduard Nazarov
Travels of an Ant: Eduard Nazarov
Lion and Ox: Fyodor Khitruk
Wolf and Calf: Mikhail Kamenetsky
Cabaret: Ideya Garanina
Old Stair: Alexander Gorlenko
King's Sandwich: Andrei Khrjanovsky
About Sidorov Vova: Eduard Nazarov
DVD #4
An extraordinary collection of Russia's most important animated short films by Russia's
world renowned directors. Winners of the top prizes at Cannes, Lille, Tour, Venice, Annecy,
London, Zagreb, Moscow, Krakow, Melbourne, New York and Ottawa.
Doors - Director: Nina Shorina (1986)
Born in Moscow, Shorina was a popular child actress who studied first acting and then
filmmaking at the State Film School (VGIK). She began working at Soyuzmultfilm in 1976
and directed several children's films, including Poodle. Just prior to perestroika,
Soyuzmultfilm's administration approved DOOR, a script ostensibly about a boy repairing a
door, believing it would also be a film for children. However, the film Shorina delivered in
1986 was for a grown-up audience, the first of a trilogy that would explore the Soviet
citizen's reaction to the dramatic political changes sweeping the Soviet Union. The state
film censors threatened to shelve the film. After the DOOR won numerous international
prizes - by which time the sweeping changes of perestroika had firmly taken root - the
censors apologized to Shorina.
Boy Is A Boy - Director: Natasha Golovanova (1986)
Golovanova graduated from both the acting and the directing departments of the State Film
School. She began work at Soyuzmultfilm in 1971, directing Disney-style animation for
children based on Russian and western fairy tales and scripted by her husband, Vladimir.
With BOY IS A BOY, she worked for the first time with a female screenwriter, Masha Denego,
and explored her experience raising two sons. The Film was well-accepted and shown
widely.
Liberated Don Quixote - Director - Vadim Kurchevsky (1987)
After beginning work at Soyuzmultfilm as an art director, Kurchevsky became a leading
director of stop motion animation for children. In the 1960s he began to address adult
viewers. He experimented with new forms of artistic expression and together with Nikolai
Serbryakov and Roman Kachanov, took stop motion in new directions. LIBERATED DON
QUIXOTE was the first lyrical "auteur" film in this genre. A stylish and ironic retelling of
Cervantes' Spanish classic, the film incorporates Kurchevsky's background as a graduate of
the Muhina Art School in St. Petersburg and as a curator at the Zagorsk Doll Museum. The
exquisite costumes and masterly use of lighting and color influenced a generation of stop
motion animators in Russia and around the world.
Matinko - Director: Eduard Nazarov (1987)
Based on a fairy tale written by Boris Stergin, a great storyteller whose works were not
widely distributed in the former USSR because he had never joined the Communist Party.
Like the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary General of the Soviet Union, the
princess in the story is named Raissa. Only fragments of the film (those without the Princess
Raissa) were broadcast by the State Television until Gorbachev was out of power.
Big Underground Ball - Director: Stanislav Sokolov (1987)
Made just after perestroika, the film is about the struggle of power between darkness and
light in a world of dreams. The film is based on two Hans Christian Andersen stories, "the
Marsh Kink's Daughter" and "Hill of the Elves" (both written by the famous Danish
children's author to convey social, moral, and philosophical messages to a mature
audience). A former art director, Sokolov used many innovative techniques to create a
unique world.
Cat and Clown - Director: Natasha Golovanova (1988)
Golovanova continued the exploration of the relationship between he world of the child and
the adult she began with BOY IS A BOY. Masha Denego again wrote the script, but this time
Golovanova's Husband wrote the dialogue. The film reflects the new freedoms of artistic
expression which came with perestroika.
Dream - Director: Nina Shorina (1988)
The second of the trilogy of films that began with DOOR. Impotent intellectuals meditate on
the state of the nation while dreaming nostalgically of the past. DREAM was stopped during
production by studio administrators who said Shorina was not "communicating" with film's
artists. When finished, it was not entered into many international competitions, the victim
of studio intrigues. Nonetheless, it received brilliant reviews abroad.
Kele - Director: Mikhail Aldashin and Peep Pedmanson (1988)
Modern telling of an old folk tale from the Chukotka tribe of Indians who inhabit the
Russian side of Alaska. Images are based on 19th century Chukotka drawings.
Alter Ego - Director: Nina Shorina (1989)
The third film in the trilogy ("Alter Ego" begins with a reference to "Door") studies the
relationship of art to the everyday via a self-portrait. By the time Shorina was ready to make
this highly personal film, her reputation as a director had already been established, and she
was able to overcome resistance from studio administrators. The film is based on a short
story she wrote in "literary Learning", an influential magazine published during perestroika.
Girlfriend - Director: Yelena Gavrilko (1989)
One of the new wave of young directors to emerge in the 80s, all of Gavrilko's films are
based on folk tales and address non-traditional relationships. This is a surrealistic view of a
poignant and lonely relationship between a fisherman and his fish.
Croak X Croak - Director: Yelena Fedorova (1990)
The directorial debut of Yelena Fedorova, an artist who worked as an artist on several
award-winning films produced by Soyuzmultfilm. For Fedorova the film is about the relation
between leaders with unique personalities and the masses which follow them without
question. Croak x Croak passed censorship but was never shown in the USSR, perhaps
because the Soviet authorities saw too many parallels between the rapid succession of frog
leaders and the rapid succession of Soviet leaders following the death of Leonid Brejznev.
Cat and Company - Director: Alexander Guriev (1990)
A contemporary of Yelena Gavrilko, Guriev studied under the legendary Ivan Ivanov-Vano
and found ways to use the genre of folk art in new ways. His much admired "Cat &
Company" combines folk art, music and literature. With a humorous eye it's a joyful tale of
a cat who is rejected by his mistress because he likes to hunt mice too much.
Running time ~ 2 hours 20 minutes. Original Russian Audio with English subtitles
-------------
Specs:
Language: Russian
Subs: English hard-sub
Video bitrate: appr. 1100kbps/ film
Framerate: most are 23.976 fps (except a few that couldn't be ivtc'ed)
Audio: AC3
Source: NTSC DVD
Ripper: CroakerBC
Enjoy and please seed.
----------------
each DVD holds around 10 animations from couple minutes to half an our in duration. The bigger part of them have won international animation contests etc. Language is Russian, but they are subtitled in English. Usually its not non pop or commercial. on the other hand at that time there were no commercial products in SSRS at all=) but i mean that its an art. Below I have posted names and some info/feedback's about the animations.. Even thought its a lot to download, i believe that its worth to broaden the horizon of animation art for a real lover of this visual art..
DVD #1
An extraordinary collection of Russia's most important animated short films by Russia's world renowned directors. Winners of the top prizes at Cannes, Lille, Tour, Venice, Annecy, London, Zagreb, Moscow, Krakow, Melbourne, New York and Ottawa.
Story of One Crime - Director: Fyodor Khitruk (1962)
1962 marked the directorial debut of Fyodor Khitruk, the distinguished animator of some of the greatest animation ever produced in Russia. One of the first animated films made by Soyuzmultfilm for adults. Story of one Crime ushered in a new era of Russian animation by taking up social themes and expounding on them with distinctive eloquence. The Film tells the story of the "little man" and seems quite ordinary - But it is told with a mischievous sharp wit.
Man in the Frame - Director: Fyodor Khitruk (1966)
Many in the Russian animation industry are still amazed that Man in the Frame was ever produced, not to mention approved and widely distributed in the USSR. Khitruk had for several years wanted to make a film which openly critiqued bureaucrats instead of disguising them as bears or beavers in children's fairy tales. Innovative visuals were created with collage and dramatized by masterful use of music.
My Green Crocodile - Director: Vadim Kurchevsky (1966)
One of the first films directed by the late Vadim Kurchevsky. An experienced artist, he began work at Soyuzmultfilm in 1957as an art director in the studio's stop motion department. By the mid-'60s Soyuzmultfilm was already known internationally for stop motion films produced for children. Kurchevsky began to use these same techniques to address adult viewers and to make films about modern-day problems. My Green Crocodile abounds in metaphors, which tell of unusual love and th courage of commitment.
There Lived Kozyavin - Director: Andrei Khrjanovsky, (1966)
who had just graduated from the Soviet State Film School (VGIK). Khrjanovsky who began his career at Soyuzmultfim working for Fyodor Khitruk, represented the new type of erudite director who emerged during this period; an intellectual connoisseur of world art, utterly irreverent of of the animation industry's previous artistic and literary constraints. There Lived Kozyavin, made the same year as Man In The Frame
Mountain Of Dinosaurs - Director: Rasa Stautmane (1967)
Was the second feature by Rasa Strautmane, a woman director born in Latvia. The story was visually light and simple. Soviet censors did not recognize that in the little tale of a shell that protected a baby dinosaur so well that it suffocated him, audiences would find parallels with the stifling state care of the individual.
Passion of Spies - Director: Yefim Gamburg (1967)
The second feature directed by Yefim Gamburg, an artist who began working at Soyuzmultfilm in 1955 and animated many of the best children's poems, fairy tales and songs. He turned his attention to adults with "Passions of Spies," reviewing dozens of Soviet spy and detective films to make Soyuzmultfilm's first spoof. He selected the most stereotypical spy movie plots and characters, all well known to Soviet audiences. Soviet censors were so nervous about the film that they immediately sent it to the film club at Lubyanka (KGB Headquarters) to test the political waters. A high ranking general loved it -- and personally thanked Gamburg for "destroying the established stereotype of the 'wooden' Soviet intelligence." Made during a period of Soviet world power, the film was never officially shown abroad until after perestroika.
Glass Harmonica - Director: Andrei Khjanovsky (1968)
The state comes into confrontation with the artist, who gives new vision to the masses, and shows them a different horizon. "Glass Harmonica" was shelved by Soviet censors who -- not surprisingly -- found it ideologically disturbing. It was finally released after perestroika. "Glass Harmonica" was the first animated film scored by the late legendary Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who was to collaborate with Khrjanovsky on more than half of his films. The animators Yulo-Ilmar Sooster and Yuri Nolyev-Sobolev, were among the most important artists of the Soviet underground. Before finding refuge at Soyuzmultfilm, they participated at the famous and controversial Manege (opposite the Kremlin) exhibit of underground art which was closed down by Khruschev and condemned by Soviet press.
Ball Of Yarn - Director: Nikolai Serebriakov (1968)
A graduate of the Muhina School of Art (Leningrad), Serebriakov worked in theatre and cinema before joining Soyuzmultfilm. He bravely took the stop motion technique in new directions, using numerous textures and collages to give his films special artistic beauty. The poetic fairy tale "Ball of Yarn" explored deep philosophical ideas through unusual imagery.
Singing Teacher - Director: Anatoly Petrov (1968)
A mini-film which marked the directorial debut of the veteran artist and animator . Petrov used color pencil drawings to create the film's graphic look. This short film brought him great respect and recognition of Soviet audiences; they knew well about.
Film, Film, Film - Director: Fyodor Khitruk (1968)
Won Wide acclaim at home and abroad and included a parody of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terible. Khirtruk was widely respected in the former USSR and used his celerity status to guide and protect tlented newcomers duringthe Soviet era - like Eisenstein, whom he once met. Filmmakers from all over the world can recognize their own problems in the 20 minute comic masterpiece.
Running time ~ 2 hours 20 minutes. Original Russian Audio with English subtitles
----------------------
"Sets stunning new standards in fantasy and beauty while demonstrating a remarkable ability to impart values without resorting to violence."
-Laurence Vittes, The Hollywood Reporter
"The Beauty and the Beast - which hews closer to the original story than did Disney's - is a refurbished version of the glamorous Russian animated 1952 film many of today's parents viewed on TV as kids. New recorded celeb voices (Amy Irving, Tim Curry) complete this 14-karat jewel"
-Moira McCormick, TV Guide
"These handsome shorts and featurettes offer new takes on familiar fairy tales, as well as an introduction to some lesser-known Russian stories... the result is an often enchanting sequence of visuals that delights the eye..."
-Charles Solomon, The Los Angeles Times
------------------------
DVD #2
- Armoire
- Ballerina on the boat
- Battle at Kerzhenets
- Butterfly
- Contact
- Crane Feathers
- Firing range
- Fox and Rabbit
- Hedgehog in the Fog
- Heron and Crane
- Island
- Season
DVD #3
(1997)
An extraordinary collection of award-winning animated short films by Russia's world-renowned directors and artists.
Winners of the top prizes at Annecy, Cannes, Colombo, Delhi, Espinho, Grijon, Hiroshima, Huesca, Kiev, Krakow, Lille, London, Mamaia, Melbourne, Moscow, New York, Oberhausen, Odense, Ottawa, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tampere, Tours, Venice and Zagreb. Presented in anthology format for the first time.
Films Included In This Volume Are:
Tale of Tales: Yuri Norstein
Hunt: Eduard Nazarov
Last Hunt: Alexander Karavayev
There Was A Dog: Eduard Nazarov
Travels of an Ant: Eduard Nazarov
Lion and Ox: Fyodor Khitruk
Wolf and Calf: Mikhail Kamenetsky
Cabaret: Ideya Garanina
Old Stair: Alexander Gorlenko
King's Sandwich: Andrei Khrjanovsky
About Sidorov Vova: Eduard Nazarov
DVD #4
An extraordinary collection of Russia's most important animated short films by Russia's
world renowned directors. Winners of the top prizes at Cannes, Lille, Tour, Venice, Annecy,
London, Zagreb, Moscow, Krakow, Melbourne, New York and Ottawa.
Doors - Director: Nina Shorina (1986)
Born in Moscow, Shorina was a popular child actress who studied first acting and then
filmmaking at the State Film School (VGIK). She began working at Soyuzmultfilm in 1976
and directed several children's films, including Poodle. Just prior to perestroika,
Soyuzmultfilm's administration approved DOOR, a script ostensibly about a boy repairing a
door, believing it would also be a film for children. However, the film Shorina delivered in
1986 was for a grown-up audience, the first of a trilogy that would explore the Soviet
citizen's reaction to the dramatic political changes sweeping the Soviet Union. The state
film censors threatened to shelve the film. After the DOOR won numerous international
prizes - by which time the sweeping changes of perestroika had firmly taken root - the
censors apologized to Shorina.
Boy Is A Boy - Director: Natasha Golovanova (1986)
Golovanova graduated from both the acting and the directing departments of the State Film
School. She began work at Soyuzmultfilm in 1971, directing Disney-style animation for
children based on Russian and western fairy tales and scripted by her husband, Vladimir.
With BOY IS A BOY, she worked for the first time with a female screenwriter, Masha Denego,
and explored her experience raising two sons. The Film was well-accepted and shown
widely.
Liberated Don Quixote - Director - Vadim Kurchevsky (1987)
After beginning work at Soyuzmultfilm as an art director, Kurchevsky became a leading
director of stop motion animation for children. In the 1960s he began to address adult
viewers. He experimented with new forms of artistic expression and together with Nikolai
Serbryakov and Roman Kachanov, took stop motion in new directions. LIBERATED DON
QUIXOTE was the first lyrical "auteur" film in this genre. A stylish and ironic retelling of
Cervantes' Spanish classic, the film incorporates Kurchevsky's background as a graduate of
the Muhina Art School in St. Petersburg and as a curator at the Zagorsk Doll Museum. The
exquisite costumes and masterly use of lighting and color influenced a generation of stop
motion animators in Russia and around the world.
Matinko - Director: Eduard Nazarov (1987)
Based on a fairy tale written by Boris Stergin, a great storyteller whose works were not
widely distributed in the former USSR because he had never joined the Communist Party.
Like the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary General of the Soviet Union, the
princess in the story is named Raissa. Only fragments of the film (those without the Princess
Raissa) were broadcast by the State Television until Gorbachev was out of power.
Big Underground Ball - Director: Stanislav Sokolov (1987)
Made just after perestroika, the film is about the struggle of power between darkness and
light in a world of dreams. The film is based on two Hans Christian Andersen stories, "the
Marsh Kink's Daughter" and "Hill of the Elves" (both written by the famous Danish
children's author to convey social, moral, and philosophical messages to a mature
audience). A former art director, Sokolov used many innovative techniques to create a
unique world.
Cat and Clown - Director: Natasha Golovanova (1988)
Golovanova continued the exploration of the relationship between he world of the child and
the adult she began with BOY IS A BOY. Masha Denego again wrote the script, but this time
Golovanova's Husband wrote the dialogue. The film reflects the new freedoms of artistic
expression which came with perestroika.
Dream - Director: Nina Shorina (1988)
The second of the trilogy of films that began with DOOR. Impotent intellectuals meditate on
the state of the nation while dreaming nostalgically of the past. DREAM was stopped during
production by studio administrators who said Shorina was not "communicating" with film's
artists. When finished, it was not entered into many international competitions, the victim
of studio intrigues. Nonetheless, it received brilliant reviews abroad.
Kele - Director: Mikhail Aldashin and Peep Pedmanson (1988)
Modern telling of an old folk tale from the Chukotka tribe of Indians who inhabit the
Russian side of Alaska. Images are based on 19th century Chukotka drawings.
Alter Ego - Director: Nina Shorina (1989)
The third film in the trilogy ("Alter Ego" begins with a reference to "Door") studies the
relationship of art to the everyday via a self-portrait. By the time Shorina was ready to make
this highly personal film, her reputation as a director had already been established, and she
was able to overcome resistance from studio administrators. The film is based on a short
story she wrote in "literary Learning", an influential magazine published during perestroika.
Girlfriend - Director: Yelena Gavrilko (1989)
One of the new wave of young directors to emerge in the 80s, all of Gavrilko's films are
based on folk tales and address non-traditional relationships. This is a surrealistic view of a
poignant and lonely relationship between a fisherman and his fish.
Croak X Croak - Director: Yelena Fedorova (1990)
The directorial debut of Yelena Fedorova, an artist who worked as an artist on several
award-winning films produced by Soyuzmultfilm. For Fedorova the film is about the relation
between leaders with unique personalities and the masses which follow them without
question. Croak x Croak passed censorship but was never shown in the USSR, perhaps
because the Soviet authorities saw too many parallels between the rapid succession of frog
leaders and the rapid succession of Soviet leaders following the death of Leonid Brejznev.
Cat and Company - Director: Alexander Guriev (1990)
A contemporary of Yelena Gavrilko, Guriev studied under the legendary Ivan Ivanov-Vano
and found ways to use the genre of folk art in new ways. His much admired "Cat &
Company" combines folk art, music and literature. With a humorous eye it's a joyful tale of
a cat who is rejected by his mistress because he likes to hunt mice too much.
Running time ~ 2 hours 20 minutes. Original Russian Audio with English subtitles
-------------
Specs:
Language: Russian
Subs: English hard-sub
Video bitrate: appr. 1100kbps/ film
Framerate: most are 23.976 fps (except a few that couldn't be ivtc'ed)
Audio: AC3
Source: NTSC DVD
Ripper: CroakerBC
Enjoy and please seed.
----------------
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