Cartoons

[Laura Pontieri Hlavacek]

Hello Natalie,
Maria Dmytrieva just sent you some useful links, so I will try to add  
something new.

It is quite difficult for me to pick up only a few animated films since  
I have a collection of about 1000 films and I wrote my Ph.D.  
dissertation on them. I'll try to give you some names to look for. I  
realize that sometimes it is easier to have titles then directors'  
name, but you can always check their filmography at www.animator.ru  
(and most of the time the site also tells you where you can find the  
film).

I like the compilation Masters of Russian Animation (Films by Jove) a  
collection of films (mainly films directed not only to children) in 4  
DVDs - they include films by the best Russian animation directors  
Norstein, Khitruk, Kurchevsky, Khrzhanovsky, Gamburg,  
Serebriakov,Nazarov, Atamanov, to name just a few (I would suggest any  
film by these directors, also those that are not in this collection).  
Bardin strangely is not represented here, but you can buy the  
collection of his films in VHS (highly recommended) at ozon.ru.

If you are looking for some more recent films, Pilot studio is quite  
good, you can find collection of older films, or (as someone already  
mentioned) new films of the series Gora samotsvetov (not all of them  
are good, but many of them). At ozon.ru or rightSite.ru
One of the directors at Pilot, Mikhail Aldashin, made also a very nice  
film called Rozhdestvo (1996) that is nice to watch at this time of the  
year. His films are good but a bit more difficult to find, but I can  
try to help you if you are interested in them.

Kucha starykh dobrykh mul'tov has quite a number of good films for  
children, if you want some fairy-tale based cartoons, they are  
available in other sborniki see for example ozon.ru (you can have them  
delivered to Canada, it takes a long time, but they usually arrive).  
See films by Ivanov-Vano, sister Brumbergs, and others. If you want  
some titles, please write me back.

There is also a collection of shorts that appeared on tv  in Veselaia  
Karusel, a lot of them are good, they are about 3 minutes long  
(available at ozon.ru)

For children (and again not only) some of my favorites are those that  
you already have in Kucha collection + Cheburashka, Krokodil Gena,  
Vinni Pukh, Kak l'venok i cherepakha peli pesniu, Fantik, Goluboi  
Shchenok, Kanikuly Bonifatsiia, Lev s sedoi borodoi, Levsha,  
Shchelkunchik, Zhil-byl pes and - more difficult to find - Khalif-aist,  
Konets chernoi topi, Okno, Shkatulka s sekretom.

Directors to look for: Kurchevsky, Serebriakov and Karanovich for  
puppet animation, Khrzhanovsky, Khitruk, Norstein, Gamburg of course,  
but also Atamanov, Nazarov, Nosyrev, Gorlenko, Shorina, Stepantsev,  
Ugarov

Contemporary directors to look at: Cherkasova, Petkevich, Aleksandr  
Petrov,  Aldashin, Bronzit and Maximov (mind their styles are very  
different)

I can write pages on this theme, please feel free to contact me if you  
have specific questions (like for example the fairy-tale films - if you  
can't find them in ozon.ru, I can try to help you to locate them and  
give you a list), I will check my e-mail again after January 5.
Hope this helped a little bit
All the best,
Laura


Laura Pontieri Hlavacek, Ph.D.
laura.pontieri at aya.yale.edu


On Dec 20, 2007, at 9:09 PM, nataliek at UALBERTA.CA wrote:

> For those who are interested, I have Kucha starykh dobrykh mul'tov and  
> it is an incredible 26 hours long.  It is a double-sided disk,  
> something I never heard of until I started viewing this item.  It does  
> have all the items listed below.  One thing I have not been able to  
> find on DVD is the fairytale based cartoons that used to show on  
> Spokoinoi nochi malyshi.  I bought some VHS tapes with some of these  
> on them years ago.  But the new DVD versions, like the one named  
> above, are much better quality.  I would love to have the skazka  
> cartoons in DVD.  And am open to suggestions for new materials.  NK
>
> Quoting Valery Belyanin <vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM>:
>
>> Dear Natalie,
>> "Noo pogodi" is like Tom and Gerry. rather aggressive
>> To my taste
>> the best is "Jozhik v tumane" (not too verbal though)
>> Winni-the-Pooh, Carlson on the roof - though of non-Russian origin are
>> popular in Russia
>> also "Bremenskije muzikanty" part one (musical)
>> "Plastilinovaja vorona" is short and great
>> in fact there are 4 disks something like "The best of the best Soviet
>> cartoons"
>> you may watch them all in four evenings.
>>
>> ??????? ??????? / Valery Belyanin, PhD
>>
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