In the late 17th century Russia, a dark magician arrives at the capital in search of the ultimate power hidden within the Magic Worlds, the entrance to which is located inside the Sukharev Tower and is tightly guarded by Jacob Bruce, the Wizard of Balance. When Jacob's apprentice Petya and daughter...
The film is a journey through a fantastic country in which the erotic images of the films of the great Federico Fellini came to life, and Tonino Guerra himself acted as a guide. The heroes of the maestro’s paintings are sailing on a ship to the Enchanted Island. There everyone goes ashore except...
An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti.
Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has...
On the eve of the wedding Mother Nyurka heats up the sauna, and the household spirit makes sure that the whole wedding company get their long-deserved thrashing.
A creature settles down in a young man's room and feeds him but, at the same time, kills him. His life is falling apart, and he had no choice but to struggle to death against this dependence.
When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to.
A Monster suffers from boredom and loneliness, by chance he gets out of his cave and after walking through the maze arrives somewhere. There are only silly white bunnies. He is frustrated and comes back down. Finds another way, and sees some mad chickens with trunks.
Vera is a cartoonist. After the death of her husband and son, she moved from Moscow to the small town where she spent her childhood. Vera starts doing animation with children at a local club. Among her students there is a very strange boy with unusual and incomprehensible drawings.
Triumph and collapse of hope - the whole life of the Russian scientist Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay passes in an instant, at the last moment of earthly existence... Two worlds: the world of civilization and the world of nature exist simultaneously, next to one planet, but it seems that the distance...
This tale narrates the life of toys that depends on their master. It's growing, and the fate of toys is changing, and it's scary. One day, it turns out that it is not at all scary, if there is only someone with whom to share his childhood and to whom one can transmit this cozy universe and which is...
A lonely old man lives in the old Moscow courtyard, his gray life is transformed when he finds a helpless little daw that has fallen out of the nest in the courtyard. But the old man himself turns out to be just as defenseless in the face of the thoughtless cruelty of the company of neighboring...
The film tells the conflict between generations with the example of the difficult relations between Kolia, a little boy, and the little old women who live in the same yard. But the little boy grows up and becomes a bus driver.
In the mid-1990s, Guerra wrote scripts for two animated films by A. Khrzhanovsky, thus making his debut as an author in animation. These are the famous films "The Lion with the Gray Beard" and "The Long Journey". Animated films, where impossible fantasies come to life, seem to be the true territory...
