Władysław Starewicz Movies

A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and...

Aurélie, a fly, lives in the countryside with her uncle Anatole, a beetle. One day, while stealing honey, she is caught by a bee but saved by...

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester,...

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a...

The misadventures of a traveling theatrical company, as the actors attempt to put on a show while romantic rivalries erupt backstage.

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long,...

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his...

The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee

A bear, a rabbit and a fox decide to form a band and play for the animals of the forest.

Not finished.

An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

Alcoholism and its Ill-Effects was considered to be one of the most popular science propaganda (or educational) films produced in Russia before the...

In an animal school in the heart of Africa a giraffe wonders about the trip to Paris.