IN 1995, Malibu producer Joan Borsten and her husband, the Russian-born actor Oleg Vidov, were poring over a library of animated films produced at Moscow’s Soyuzmultfilm Studio when they discovered ...

"There will come soft rains & the smell of the ground, and swallows circling with their shimmering sound." An eerie, ominous ...

Animation in the Soviet Union was often a glorious thing to behold: experimental, surreal, and eclectic, even amidst government censorship. In fact, just one home-grown animated film didn’t make it ...

The sound, the droning narration isn't important: this amazing documentary on animated Soviet Propaganda is stunning. From 1924 to perestroika the USSR produced more than 4 dozen animated propaganda ...

In the late 1960's, the internationally-renowned Soviet animation company Soyukmultifilm produced as part of its series of one thousand, five hundred and twenty three cartoons an adaptation of A.A.

Alexander Tatarsky, a dynamic and colorful figures in the Russian perestroika and post-perestroika animation world, died of a heart attack in Moscow July 22. He was 56. While his own works were widely ...

Yuri Norstein meets true crime in the latest episode of Criminal, the popular podcast hosted by Phoebe Judge. In “Only in Hollywood,” Judge — who has an eye for oddball tales of wrongdoing — recounts ...

Anatoly Prokhorov, a key figure in commercial and auteur-driven Russian animation since the 1980s, died from leukemia on Sunday. He was 72. But Kikoriki is only one part of an unusually rich and ...

That was the high point of "Krtek" ("The Mole"), one of Eastern Europe's most beloved old cartoons, about a kind-hearted mole and his woodland friends. Because of YouTube, "Krtek" and other Soviet-era ...

Looking back at the best cartoons of the 1950s needs to take into account the era. With the ravages of World War Two somewhat receding and film production and attendance stabilising, animated feature ...

Looking back at the best cartoons of the 1950s needs to take into account the era. With the ravages of World War Two somewhat ...