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Foundation date 10 june 1936
Soyuzmultfilm (Russian: Союзмультфильм; [səjʉsmʊlʲtˈfʲilʲm], Union Cartoon) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union. The studio has produced 1530 films during its existence.
It is currently divided into two studios: "Creative union of the "Film studio "Soyuzmultfilm" («Творческо-производственное объединение «Киностудия «Союзмультфильм») and the Soyuzmultfilm Film Fund («Фильмофонд Киностудии «Союзмультфильм»).
Filmography of Soyuzmultfilm (38 films)
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Shapoklyak (1974)
, 19minutesDirected by Roman Katchanov
Origin Russie
Genres Animation
Actors Vassili Livanov
Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka decide to go to the sea on vacation. Shapoklyak steals their train tickets, and so they are kicked off the train. On their way home, the duo, with Shapoklyak's help, stops hikers from poaching and a factory from polluting a river.
The Heron and the Crane (1974)
, 10minutesDirected by Iouri Norstein
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal
Actors Innokenti Smoktounovski
Le héron désire se marier avec la cigogne. La cigogne aussi. Chacun a son tour ils refusent les avances de l'autre. Et dans un décor de ruines mangées de végétation, leur marivaudage se poursuit, apparemment sans issue possible.
The Fox and the Hare (1973)
, 12minutesDirected by Iouri Norstein
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal
Actors Viktor Khokhryakov
Une renarde s'est construit une maison de glace tandis qu'un lièvre a construit la sienne en bois. Lorsque le Printemps arrive, la maison de la renarde fond au soleil. Jalouse, elle jette le lapin hors de chez lui et s'installe dans sa maison. Triste et impuissant, le lapin s'en va pleurer dans la forêt. Il rencontre successivement un loup, un ours et un taureau qui chacun à leur tour, essaient de l'aider mais reviennent bredouille. Seul le coq, aidé du lapin parvient à déloger la renarde.
Ball of Wool (1968)
Based on a tale by Ovsey Driz, the story is about a poor babushka (old woman) who one day finds a wool dog. She discovers that she can use its wool to knit everything she wants. First she knits clothes, then a house. Despite having the most needful things, she needs more and more. She wants a young face and a new life, but the dog's wool did not suffice, thus breaking the charm. The dog took all its wool together with the babushka, absorbing her greed.
The Mitten (1967)
, 10minutesDirected by Roman Katchanov
Origin Russie
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
The film centres on a girl who wants a dog. She brings home a puppy but her mother wouldn't let the puppy stay. The girl is upset and goes outside to the playground where all the other kids are walking their dogs. She starts playing with her mitten, pretending that the mitten is a dog. And the power of her imagination turns her mitten into a knitted puppy, which keeps the mitten red color and black spots on the back. The puppy starts chasing a cat which ends up finding shelter on top of the ad board saying "Everyone who has a dog is welcome to take part in the kennel club competition!" The girl takes her puppy to the competition and it completes the task better than other dogs but on the way to the finish one of the threads of puppy's knitted coat gets caught by a nail on the wooden barrier and it loses the competition. The girl takes it home and is about to feed it, when it turns back to a mitten. Mom notices the girl trying to feed a mitten and decides to get her a real puppy.
Passion of Spies (1967)
, 20minutesGenres Animation
Themes Spy films
Actors Édouard Nazarov
In Part 1, a foreign Intelligence agency chief Shtampf is suffering from a toothache. After he finds out that a wonderful dentist's chair was invented in the Soviet Union, so he develops a plan of stealing it. Part 2 tells the story of chauffeur's idle son Kolychev, who cannot pay the restaurant bill. He has to organize the dentist's chair's destruction in return.
There Lived Kozyavin (1966)
Directed by Andreï Khrjanovski
Genres Animation
An employee, called Kozyavin, receives an assignment from his boss to find another employee called Sidorov. Without any questions, he soon left the office to search the employee Sidorov. On a traffic, he walked instead on streets through sewer. He then arrived a wall, which was destroyed soon by a construction machine. There he met a builder and touched his shoulders. The builder turned to him and Kozyavin asked him, but he didn't hear anything he said close his ears. The builder took a little red flag from his suit and waved with it, until every builder stopped to work, and even the machines. Kozyavin asked one more time, if he sawed Sidorov. After a surprising action, he walked further to search Sidorov. An active ramp in the building site, which workedintermittently up and down, didn't frighten up Kozyavin. Without taking any break, Kozyavin continued to walk. On a fair, he walked upon a pole. The children, which were amazed about his acrobatic skills, were asked by Kozyavin. After no reaction by them, the employee Kozyavin pursued his way with an optimistic view to comply the task. The second person Kozyavin met was a violinist, which currently played a composition. Kozyavin asked the violinist, if he saw Sidorov. Without any response, Kozyavin nudged him and took his violin bow. Walking on surrealistic stairs, he opened the door to a commission building.
Story of One Crime (1963)
, 19minutesDirected by Fyodor Khitruk
Genres Animation
Actors Zinovi Gerdt
Noises at night made by rude neighbors cause the very friendly and peaceful Vasily Mamin to commit a crime.
I Was a Sputnik of the Sun (1959)
, 1h7Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Space opera
Actors Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgy Vitsin
The Snow Queen (1957)
, 1h4Directed by Lev Atamanov
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film, Political films, Children's films
Actors Maria Babanova, Ianina Boleslavovna Jeïmo, Sergey Martinson, Alekseï Konsovski, Sandra Dee, Paul Frees
Hans Christian Andersen's story is simplified in this animated feature, which begins with an animated copy of his fairy tales, introduced by a little man, who says he is "old Dreamy" ("Ole Lukøje"). Old Dreamy tells the viewer that on days when the master storyteller Andersen is not overtired, he puts him to sleep with his colorful, magic umbrella ("slumbrella") that also causes him to dream wonderful stories, which he then writes as his fairy tales. Old Dreamy then narrates the story of the Snow Queen, which he begins with Kay and Gerda up in their window box garden, planting two roses together, which Kay calls "our roses",
La Princesse Grenouille (1954)
, 40minutesDirected by Mikhaïl Tsekhanovski
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals
Actors Boris Chirkov, Monique Thierry, Gérard Hernandez, Philippe Dumat
La princesse Vassilissa la très belle est kidnappée par Kochtcheï l'Immortel, sorcier maléfique, qui l'emmène dans son jardin où tous les êtres vivants sont changés en or. Kochtcheï tente en vain de séduire Vassilissa, qui se rit de lui lorsqu'il lui demande de l'épouser, car il est très laid. Furieux, le sorcier invite alors la princesse à se regarder dans un miroir ensorcelé, et il la transforme ainsi en grenouille pour trois ans et trois jours, après quoi il la chasse.
The Hunchedback Horse (1947)
, 57minutesDirected by Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Origin Russie
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about horses, Political films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Anatoly Kubatsky
An old man has three sons: the elder two are considered fairly smart, while the youngest, Ivan, is considered an idiot. One day the father sends the three to find out who's been taking the hay in their fields at night. The elder brothers decide to lie hidden in a haystack, where they promptly fall asleep. Ivan, meanwhile, sits beside a birch tree and plays on his recorder. Suddenly, he sees a magnificent horse come flying out of the sky. Ivan grabs her mane and holds on as the horse tries to shake him off. Finally, the horse begs him to let her go and in return gives him two beautiful black male horses and a little humpbacked horse (Konyok-gorbunok) to be his companion.
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Kitten from Lizyukova Street (1988)
, 9minutesDirected by Viatcheslav Kotionotchkine
Genres Animation
Actors Vyacheslav Nevinny, Olga Arosseva
The storyline tells about the kitten turned into the hippopotamus and found himself in Africa, but he kept not only his cat's habits, but also love to his native street Lizyukova in Voronezh.
The Pass (1988)
, 30minutesDirected by Vladimir Tarasov
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Vassili Livanov
On a distant, snow-covered planet, a starship from Earth crashes. Due to dangerous radiation levels, the survivors have to evacuate far away. Over years, the radiation levels go down but all attempting to return to the ship die when crossing a treacherous mountain pass, due to a combination of the elements and wild animals who come out at night.