Kosmikino Kartoons: Soviet Era Russian And Eastern European Science-Fiction And Fantasy Animation
List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc era animated science-fiction, fantasy, folktale and fairytale films from Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe covering the period 1924 to 1992.
Any suggestions would be most welcome and if you know of any articles, papers or reviews covering these genres of animation from this period, please let me know.
kosmikino@gmail.com
http://kosmikino.blogspot.co.uk/
There a number of animations from this era that have never had an English translation or have been machine translated into English and need proof-reading and revising, if you can help, please get in touch.
There are currently, a small number of these animations for viewing on the Kosmikino You Tube channel: visit the blog address above for the link.
Any suggestions would be most welcome and if you know of any articles, papers or reviews covering these genres of animation from this period, please let me know.
kosmikino@gmail.com
http://kosmikino.blogspot.co.uk/
There a number of animations from this era that have never had an English translation or have been machine translated into English and need proof-reading and revising, if you can help, please get in touch.
There are currently, a small number of these animations for viewing on the Kosmikino You Tube channel: visit the blog address above for the link.
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- DirectorsNikolay KhodataevZenon KomissarenkoYoury MerkulovA tale about Comrade Kominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet. The film is a parody on the famous SF film "Aelita" from the same year.
- DirectorsRoman KachanovGlenn StantonStarsOlga GromovaVsevolod LarionovYuriy VolyntsevZoologist professor Steel, his small daughter Christine and captain Green leave Earth in search for rare space animals. The journey turns into adventurous and dangerous mission involving space pirates and a missing captain of a ship.
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoTale about a fish-man and a fish, based on Alexander Pushkin story.
- DirectorLeonid NechaevStarsPavel ChernyshevLarisa PonomarenkoVanya PchyolkinA highly advanced civilization is affected by a strange energy originating from the emotions of the inhabitants of Earth. They decide to send a newborn as a weapon to fix it. At the last moment, his mother throws herself also to Earth.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsLudek MunzarJaroslav MouckaChristian BrücknerA young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsOtakar BrousekAntonín ProcházkaFrantisek FilipovskýYoung knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he becomes burdened with life's hardships. But then he meets a pretty water nymph, Mary.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaAfter escaping the Sea Sultan, Sinbad finds trouble in a big island ruled by apes.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaStories from the three-year journey of the world-famous Sinbad.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaSinbad encounters a daemon trapped in a jug of clay.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaSinbad brings a horse that previously saved him to a city that has never seen one. He trades it for a magic carpet.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaSinbad ends up finding himself at the mercy of an angry sultan whose daughter was taken.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaSinbad encounters a human-eating Giant.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaSinbad gets in trouble after trying to court the Sultan's daughter.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarJan TrískaSinbad and his crew are lost at sea, starving. Sinbad catches and releases a magical fish that ends up helping him when in mortal danger. Still, bad luck follows him everywhere.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsH. HustolesovaZdenek KrízPeople living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyörgy CserhalmiVera PapGyula SzabóIn this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyVasiliy LivanovAleksandr PashutinPeople survive on an alien planet in the hope of returning to Earth. Fantastic cartoon based on Kir Bulychyov's novel.
- DirectorIon Popescu-GopoThis 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.
- DirectorVladimir SamsonovStarsAleksey BorzunovVsevolod LarionovYuriy PuzyryovSet in the future, a rocket ship from Earth travels to a far universe and touches down on an unknown planet with a mission to exploit its natural resources. However, this is planet is like no other, it seems to be alive.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovA man walking on the fields encounters a shapeshifting alien visitor from outer space.
- DirectorNazim TulyahodzhayevStarAleksandr LenkovAnimated Film based on Ray Bradbury's novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains..."
