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STORY OF ONE CRIME
By taking up social themes and expounding on them with distinctive eloquence, "History of One Crime" laid the foundation for a new direction in Russian animation. The story was not a fairy tale, but a parody of the "idealized" Soviet masses and their propensity for making noise in just about any situation.
Director: Fyodor Khitruk
Footage: 20min40sec
Year: 1962
MAN IN A FRAME
An open critique of Soviet bureaucrats. Innovative visuals were created with collage, and dramatized by masterful use of music and effects. The man in the frame is transferred and promoted constantly, its human nature is lost gradually too.
Director: Fyodor Khitruk
Footage: 10min30sec
Year: 1966
THERE LIVED KOZYAVIN
It's also a satire of state bureaucracy from the point of view of the most insignificant cog in the wheel. Little staff member Kozyavin is always busy but has no efficiency at all.
Director: Vadim Khrjanovsky
Footage: 9min30sec
Year: 1966
ARMOIRE
A short but biting satire on Soviet life. The wardrobe is so large that can contain all furnishings and we can live within.
Director: Andrei Khrjanovsky
Footage: 4min30sec
Year: 1970
BATTLE OF KERJENETS
Frescos, icons and Rimsky Korsakov music. With a tremendous momentum, the color is energetic, poignant.
Director: Ivanov-Vano Yuri Norstein
Footage: 10min16sec
Year: 1971
GLASS HARMONICA
The state comes into confrontation with the artist, who gives new vision to the masses, and shows them a different horizon. Shelved by Soviet censors until perestroika.
Director: Andrei Khrjanovsky
Footage: 19min48sec
Year: 1968
Singing Teacher by Anatoly Petrov
If you can't beat them, join them - literally.
The river horse swallows a vocal music teacher, then can lift up its voice and sing .
Director: Anatoly Petrov
Footage: 3min18sec
Year: 1971