Aleksandr Kurlyandskiy

A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and humorous animation, almost never exposed to western eyes.

Parrot Kesha is watching TV but, feeling offended, turns it off because movies are made about various animals — but not about him. Then Vovka suggests filming a movie with a video camera, which Kesha names “Dawn of Kesha the Parrot.”

A musical animation about a London homeless man who, looking for a place to sleep, unwittingly begins a trip around the world. He manages to act in a movie, take part in a robbery and get married, only to turn back and start the journey again.

The story of young men and women on vacation. They are constantly separated by various circumstances, including the fantastic and phantasmagoric ones, but at the end, they finally marry. Oh, more, more! parodies Soviet popular culture, i.e. popular music (Italian song "Amore-more-more..."), sugary wedding photos and souvenirs, the maniacal hunt for foreign brands and clothes (such as jeans), primitive Soviet pornography, and the cult of material prosperity.

Man went to the forest to collect bird eggs from nests - there are such collectors. He brought one egg home and put it in a fur hat under a light bulb. And a very cute... snake hatched from the testicle!

The animation is about a dog, which has her inherent hunting instincts awaken, even though she lives in an ordinary apartment high-rise building. One day, her dreams come true and she plays the role of a hunter. Here it turns out that it was not what she had imagined. Now there is only the joy of returning to the family home.

The characters of the film are folk wooden and clay toys.

An omnibus of comical shorts.

As Volk is walking through the city he sees Zayats on a balcony of an apartment block watering the plants. Imagining him as as a tasty meal Volk tries to climb up the balcony. A chase ensures, the first of many.

When Misha the Bear was chosen as the mascot for the Olympic Games 1980, Baba-yaga (the witch) sets out to fight and become the mascot herself.

This time the Volk stumbles upon Zayats while Zayats is marching while playing a drum.

Along a country road Volk is chasing Zayats who is riding on a bicycle.

Volk and Zayats try themselves out at sports to varying results.

Volk is spying on Zayats with a spyglass "hidden" in a birdhouse..

In which Volk and Zayats go skydiving!

Volk desperately tries to get onto a cruise ship to get Zayats.

Volk and Zayats hang out at a ski resort, and celebrate the New Year.

Volk goes to a circus only to find Zayats there. The nature of subsequent events can be easily predicted.

After suffering a sunstroke Volk finds himfself in a world of fairytales.

It's 1993 and the Soviet Union has collappsed two years ago. This new social reality brings unexpected changes to the lives of even Volk and Zayats.

The 90s only keep getting worse for Volk and Zayats.

Hare buys glasses at the store, on the way out Wolf lures him to his house. At home they want to drink juice from the new glasses, but the glasses start to break right in their hands. The episode raises the problem of poor quality splintering glasses.

After putting on the shoes from the store, the wolf chases the hare, but soon they both lose the shoes on the way. The issue raises the problem of poor quality shoes produced in the Soviet Union at that time.

Zayats goes to a museum where Volk already waits for him, but not to learn history together.

00s brought a positive change to the lives of Volk and Zayats and they return to their carefree and lighthearted roots on a summer resort.

Pursuing Zayats Volk discovers Soviet showbiz.

Chasing Zayats on a construction site Volk discovers a new angle in their relationship.

The final "canonical" episode of the series is a New Year Special.

Volk and Zayats participate in the 1980 Olympic Games.

Volk tries to make amends with Zayats but it doesn't go as planned. Some other time he follows Zayats to a science fair, but finds there something he won't be able to handle.

At a concert that Zayats is hosting Volk tries to catch him yet again.

Hare is working at a construction site with a welding machine, from which sparks fly off and hit the Wolf. Wolf notices Hare and starts a chase, but the Hare defends himself with the welding machine. At the end of the issue Wolf crashes into an advertisement for a polytechnic technical school and expresses his desire to learn to operate welding machines there, but it turns out that this technical school accepts only athletes. The episode focuses on the problem that some technical schools and universities at that time, accepted students not based on knowledge, but by athletic merit, so that the institution could show sports results.

Continuing the carefree tone of their previous encounter, this time Volk and Zayats continue their"cat-and-mouse" behaviour in the countryside.

Animated series about the adventures of a parrot Kesha, "the hero of our time." The action is concentrated in the city and its surroundings. Kesh lives in the apartment of Vova, a schoolchild, but because of his hot-tempered, arrogant character, he periodically runs away and gets into trouble, eventually returning to Vovka with a confession. The humor of the series is based on the eccentric behavior of Keshi, on recognizable realities, as well as on the multiple quotations used by the parrot.

The Cat shows off his new player. Kesha, jealous, returns home and makes a scene for his owner. After that, he leaves home and tries to sell himself for 1,000 rubles. Meeting Vovka's rich neighbor, he goes to live with him. But life turns out to be not so sweet.

The fat red Cat goes with his owners to their country house. Kesha complains that, unlike the others, he has to stay in the city because Vovka is sick. Not wanting to wait for his owner to recover, the parrot goes on vacation by himself.

The main characters of the animated film are three little frogs, who suddenly lost their home due to drainage of the swamp and are now forced to look for a new reservoir for life. Together they dream of finding a sea in which they can settle. But the search for a new home is not an easy task. It's very difficult for little frogs in the modern world, where there are many cars and an incredible amount of dangers around.

The second issue of the animated film, with the participation of characters already familiar to the children - three funny froglings, who this time go to secondary school and meet with their dried relatives, who were put in alcohol and face new adventures.

We are for the world. Peace, friendship. Three little froglings found an alien frog that fell from the sky. And she invited the frogs to her house, where you can't touch anything, this is not a swamp. Frogs didn't like it in the city, because it's better in the swamp.

The zoo was closed for repairs, and funny situations arise with the animals that the residents have taken apart.

Once a baby elephant found a pencil in the forest, on which were wound wonderful ribbons. And since he was terribly disturbed by ears, he decided to tie them with ribbons and immediately became like a girl. A small hippopotamus was very interfered with by the stomach, and the second ribbon, which the elephant lent him, he tied his torso to himself. The giraffe took friends for the girls, but they explained that they were boys, just tied themselves up what they were prevented from moving and playing. Then the giraffe also decided to keep up and bandaged his neck so that he would not cling to the clouds. When the cheerful trio met a real girl with long hair, she told them that it was her ribbons, and that without them, her hair hindered her very much.

The cartoon tells about an ordinary family, where the mother constantly talks on the phone, the father watches TV, and the child, whom no one cares for, throws toys around. Everything changes with the arrival of a grandmother from another city. The family receives her coldly. Only the grandson is happy about her arrival. But as if by magic, order comes into the house, things are put in their places, the dishes are washed in the kitchen, and how delicious the food and pies are from grandma! The parents now argue less among themselves, the son is well-groomed and cheerful. But the grandmother leaves as suddenly as she arrived, and now her arrival is awaited with great impatience, and even the mother hopes that the mother-in-law will stay with them longer.

A wordless, abstract cartoon on a sociio-political themes of 1980s Russia

Animated Soviet satire film from 1978. Demographic problem. For adults. The stork flew over the city and carried a baby in its beak. The stork brought children to different families, but each had its own reason not to have children.

Based on a fairy tale by J. Aiken, the film tells the story of a journey on an apple pie, into which the hostess accidentally baked a piece of sky. The hospitable hosts of the flying pie gather a motley crew that embodies friendship and mutual understanding.

Two plots: "Quarrel" and "Heroic Symphony".

About the peculiarities of keeping children in summer camps.

Based on the poem by N.Yesinenko "Rope in the sky" about a crank in love with beauty.

A comedy cartoon about how tigers in the arena train the trainer.