Aleksandr Tatarskiy

Maima Long-Awaited (2008)

The tale of how a Nenets young man named Maimai conceived the idea of conquering airspace to fight an extraterrestrial being who stole people. ...

How the Sun and the Moon Reconciled (2008)

The cartoon tells that with mutual assistance, friendship and consent, it is possible to return the Sun and Moon to the sky, distribute the control of morning and evening light between them. ...

Servant-Hare (2007)

Russian puppet cartoon 2007, created at the studio "Pilot". Director Elena Chernova created it based on a Tatar folk tale. A similar story is found in the folklore of the Greeks, Kazakhs, Crimean Tatars, and Turkmens (among the Turkmens and Kazakhs, it is ...

Tom Thumb (2006)

A son appeared in a rural family – a boy with a finger. The restless kid is trying to help everywhere. But this leads to the opposite results. ...

Nightingale (2006)

A nightingale lived in a beautiful cage in the house of a rich merchant. The merchant spared nothing for his nightingale, so the nightingale lived without grief and worries, but he dreamed of freedom!… And one day, thanks to the kind advice of his brothe ...

Zlydni (2005)

Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka. ...

Raven is a Deceiver (2005)

The story of how the cheating raven was repaid in the same coin, and he suffered from his own greed. ...

Big Rooster (2005)

The tale of a rooster who rose to the skies to help his master. ...

The Fox and the Thrush (2005)

The story of the cunning Fox and how he was punished for his cunning. ...

Interpretation of Dreams (2004)

Thanks to the sage's prediction, Khan revealed the insidious plans of the conspirators and made them punish themselves... ...

Orphan Fox (2004)

About how a fox, cunning and greedy, got into a friendly team of animals. ...

How Pan Was a Horse... (2004)

A fairy tale about how an evil and greedy pan suffered misadventures and reformed. ...

The Red Gates of Rashomon (2003)

The sad story of a drunken athlete. ...

About the Girl Who Found Her Bear (2002)

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. ...

Good Night, Little Ones! (2000)

"Good Night, Little Ones!" is a Russian-language children's show created by Alexander Tatarsky & Eduard Uspensky that was first aired in 1964. This listing in particular is for Yuri Norstein's sequence that he created to air before/after each episode (whi ...

Gone with the Wind (1999)

The true story of a former chicken seeking to return to her past life. ...

Night Metro (1998)

The night subway is fraught with many secrets and events. ...

Respect the Work of the Cleaners (1998)

Pilot Brothers Suddenly Decided to Hunt (1996)

The boss and a colleague go hunting, decide to hunt and have breakfast at the same time, having come up with an original way to do this. ...

Pilot Brothers Cook Pasta for Breakfast (1996)

The brothers woke up in the morning in the city of Berdichev and began to prepare breakfast, without looking up from their usual business and cheerful conversations. ...

Pilot Brothers Sometimes Fish (1996)

The pilots decided to spend time fishing in the vicinity of Berdichev. ...

Pilot Brothers Drink Tea in the Evenings (1996)

Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigera ...

Pilot Brothers Show Each Other New Year's Magic Tricks (1996)

The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society. ...

Pilot Brothers are Shooting a Video for MTV (1995)

In the big theater hall, Kolobki, Karbofos and striped elephant are shooting a video for a song by the band U-Free - Black Merce. ...

The Other Side (1994)

A simple life of simple creatures in a wonderful and awful world. ...

Gagarin (1994)

A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so ... until a couple start playing badminton nearby. ...

Pacifier (1993)

Two babies are in dire need of pacification. ...

Golden Gate (1993)

Gold and money have been the foundation of prosperity for centuries. But nothing lasts forever... ...

Knock-Knock (1993)

A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead. ...

Fare-Well! (1993)

A cat and mouse tale ... or is it? ...

Origin of Species (1993)

A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults. ...

Hypnerotomahia (1992)

An eight-minute Russian animation directed by Andrey Svislotskiy of Pilot Animation Studio LOOSELY based on the novel Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus. ...

Here Comes the Cat! (1992)

Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement ...

I Can Hear You (1992)

An adaptation of the story by Seuss, of an elephant who could hear the voices of little people even when nobody else could. ...

Introduction (1992)

Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one. ...

Midnight Games (1991)

A surreal animated short from Russian animation studio, Pilot. At night when everybody sleeps, strange things happen, but in the morning everything is in its place. But is it really so? ...

Coup (1991)

A short cartoon created in the hot wake of the August 1991 coup. ...

Andrey Svislotskiy (1991)

This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Ukrainian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of consciousness style, the film depicts the deceitful relationship between a master and his two servants. Prese ...

Formula 1 (1991)

Rubik wins the race on his crumbling clunker, which he pushed to the finish line. The cube loses and kills its new car. ...

Hen, His Wife (1990)

Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and inte ...

Aviators (1990)

The comic vicissitudes of a parachute jump. ...

Wonders (1990)

There is a very fine line between magic tricks and miracles… ...

Elevator (1989)

The first floor takes place somewhere in the Far East. The second floor contains the leaning Tower of Pisa under construction. The third is about love story. The fourth is about money. The fifth is full of dangers. The sixth is about the airplane passenger ...

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Part 2 (1987)

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are pursuing the smuggler Karbofos, who has stolen a striped elephant from the zoo. ...

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Part 1 (1986)

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are investigating the missing striped elephant. ...

Investigation Held by Kolobki (1986)

Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner. ...

How Not to Flood the Neighbors (1986)

The second film from the series "Useful tips from Professor Chaynikov". ...

Wings, Legs and Tails (1986)

An ostrich is trying to learn how to fly in a dessert. ...

How to Heat a Tent (1986)

How to get warm while camping ...

How to Whitewash the Ceiling (1986)

Roundtrip (1985)

How a monkey became a human, and then a monkey again because of his addiction to alcohol. ...

Signs (1985)

About the danger posed to passers-by by an intoxicated driver. ...

Rubik's Cube (1985)

Animated TV magazine for schoolchildren, including the cartoons "A Box with Pencils", "Have You Seen a Hare?" and "Rubik's Cube - clowning". ...

Useful Tips From Professor Chaynikov (1985)

Funny tips on housekeeping and more… ...

This Quite Not About This (1984)

This film is about the cow living in an polluted enviroment. ...

Alarm (1984)

Cheerful screensaver-song for the program "Alarm Clock", where the main characters are the Cockerel and the Alarm Clock. ...

Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983)

Funny adventures of the clumsy fellow whom his wife dispatched to the forest to bring home a New Year tree... ...

Another Side of the Moon (1983)

A comic film about traditional Caucasian hospitality. ...

Incident at the Museum (1982)

About careful attitude to water resources. ...

Microfilms (1982)

Teleglaz (1982)

The screensaver for the cycle of saving programs. ...

New Year's Song of Father Frost (1982)

"New Year's Song of Ded Moroz" - Soviet animated film produced by the creative association "Ekran", shot in 1982 by the director Aleksandr Tatarskiy under the script of Eduard Uspensky. It was made using the technique of Plasticine animation. Ded Moroz and ...

Take Care of the Bread! (1982)

About the careful attitude to bread. ...

Return from the Stars (1982)

About the careful attitude to water. ...

A Plasticine Crow (1981)

Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox". ...

Once Upon a Time There Were Matryoshka Dolls (1981)

The characters of the film are folk wooden and clay toys. ...

Adventures of Captain Vrungel (1980)

An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead. ...

Castling (An Aquarium Confession) (1979)

One decent citizen was having lunch and indifferently looking at the fish in his aquarium. But suddenly a real monster emerged from the muddy water. However, unwillingness to strain even to save his own life led the hero to slavery. Or maybe nothing has re ...

The Golden-Horned Deer (1979)

Screen adaptation of Dmytro Pavlychko's tale-poem of the same name. The shepherd Vasylko saves his friend, the magical golden-horned deer, from the greedy king and his army. ...

How the Table Was Carried (1979)

The animals did not know how to properly carry the table, then they asked a little girl, to whom her parents gave colored pencils. She began to draw and explain everything perfectly to them in pictures. ...

First Winter (1978)

The story is about a little bear who has never seen winter and wanted to know what would happen after the end of autumn. The bear cub approaches the wolf with questions, who said that winter will come after autumn and everything will be covered with snow. ...

The Adventures of Vakula the Smith (1977)

The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints reli ...

Parasolka At The Fashionable Resort (1977)

A little man nicknamed Parasolka got tired of rainy gray days. It made him get leave faster and, like thousands of his countrymen, fly away from paved roads and busy city close to the sea. He will have not only delight, but also all the charm of a resort c ...

How The Little Bear Was Fed (1976)

About what will happen to the baby bear if he is only fed and not given the opportunity to move and do sports. ...

Musical Fairy Tales (1976)

The story of the blacksmith Vakula, which happened to him on the farm of Dikanka on Christmas night. ...

Speaking of Birds (1974)

The first, "underground" film by Tatarsky and Kovalev based on G. Borodin. ...

Miracle Factory. Animation Director (2005)

The history of Russian animated films. ...

Magia Russica (2004)

A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and humorous animation, almost never exposed to western eyes. ...

Roundtrip (1985)

How a monkey became a human, and then a monkey again because of his addiction to alcohol. ...