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 ...

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 ...

She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation by Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness. Academic Studies Press. In this enlightening, rapid-fire analysis of 20th-century Russian and Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Rhizome, it was popular among Soviet animation studios to release short experimental films based on American sci-fi stories — this one’s based on a Ray Bradbury story, and it’s sort of ...

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 ...