Junior and Karlson
Junior and Karlson is a Soviet cult cartoon based on the Swedish story by writer, Astrid Lingren (of Pippi Longstocking fame). In this cartoon, a young boy, Junior, feels lonely and desperately wants...
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Four geologists are searching for a diamond mine in the wilderness of Siberia. After locating the mine, they set out to deliver their findings to Moscow. However, on the day of their departure, a...
View ArticleThe Dog In Boots
The Dog in Boots by is yet another interpretation of the immortal Dumas novel, “The Three Musketeers.” What makes it special, beyond being an animation, is that the musketeers are reimagined as noble...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes...
View ArticleKarlson Returns
Karlson Returns is the sequel to the beloved Russian cartoon, Junior and Karlson. The housekeeper, Freken Bock, appears in Junior’s apartment and soon becomes a source of annoying authoritarianism....
View ArticleGena the Crocodile
This is the first of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, we are introduced to the series’ two main characters – Cheburashka and the Crocodile Gena. After...
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This is the second of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, Crocodile Gena is celebrating his birthday. Cheburashka presents him with a gift. Meanwhile, all the...
View ArticleShapoklyak
This is the third of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, Cheburashka and the Crocodile Gena leave by train for a seaside vacation. However, things don’t go to...
View ArticleCheburashka Goes to School
This is the final of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, the Crocodile Gena realizes that Cheburashka can’t read after he doesn’t show up to meet him at the...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Third Planet
At the end of the 22nd century, the schoolgirl Alisa Selezneva was lucky enough for her dad, a professor of cosmozoology, to take her on his next expedition to find new animals for the Moscow space...
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