Centuries pass, love remains. And for each couple, it takes its difficult form. After all, as you know, in happiness everyone is alike, and everyone is more
Centuries pass, love remains. And for each couple, it takes its difficult form. After all, as you know, in happiness everyone is alike, and everyone is unhappy in their own way. This is an animated film. Directed by Fyodor Khitruk I'll Give You a Star (1974)
The film has won countless Soviet and foreign awards. It tells about the difficult family relationship between a man and a woman in a variety of times, and with an enviable dose of humor. close
Donald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, more
Donald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, Chip and Dale fall out, but their acorns stay behind, so they work at putting out Donald's fire and retrieving their stash. Donald, of course, takes this as calmly and cheerfully as you would expect. close
A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh ("A Little One") suffers from solitude being the more
A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh ("A Little One") suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children in a Swedish family. The acute sense of solitude makes him desperately want a dog, but before he gets one, he "invents" a friend - the very Karlson who lives upon the roof. So typical for the Russian culture spirit of mischief, which is, actually, never punished, and the notion that relative welfare not necessarily means happiness made the book by Astrid Lindgren and its TV adaptations tremendously popular in the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia and vice versa - somewhat alienated to the Western reader and viewer (see User's comments below). However, both the book and the cartoon are truly universal - entertaining and funny for the children and thought-provoking and somewhat sad for grownups. close
"Black or White" is a short film directed by John Landis. A little boy listens to music, imitating the sounds of a song on the guitar. An angry, fattened more
"Black or White" is a short film directed by John Landis. A little boy listens to music, imitating the sounds of a song on the guitar. An angry, fattened father breaks into the room and starts yelling at his son for preventing him from watching TV. Then the boy brings the huge speakers right into the hall and turns it on in full so that daddy is carried first into space, and then he lands in the desert to the black Aborigines, where the great Michael Jackson merrily sings.
And the king of pop sings that all people on earth are brothers, regardless of skin color – white or black. close