Aleksandr Ptushko

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. (imdb)

Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkainen as he woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. (imdb)

An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people - first by trying to give money and goods to the poor, then by seeking out the Blue Bird of Happiness. (imdb)

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. (imdb)

Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off to prove himself to his King. Doing so, he fights the evil Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, then is freed, then finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon. (imdb)

The Stone Flower (Russian: Каменный цветок, translit. Kamennyy tsvetok) is a 1946 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. It was the Soviet Union's first color film shot on AgfaColor negative film seized in Germany, and was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It was based on a folk tale as told by Pavel Bazhov. (en.wikipedia.org)

The story is of three sisters, of whom the youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan (Saltán) to be his wife, while he makes the other two his royal cook and royal weaver. They are jealous, of course, and when the tsar goes off to war, and in his absence the tsaritsa gives birth to a son, Prince Gvidon (Gvidón), they arrange to have her and her child sealed up in a barrel and thrown into the sea. (Wikipedia)

The story, a Communist re-telling of Gulliver's Travels, is about a young boy who dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation. (en.wikipedia.org)

Animation by Alexandr Ptushko from 1937 Restaurated by Nikolai Majorov & Vladimir Kotovski one of the first Russian color animations, using the 3 color method of Pavlov Mershin.

Ruslan and Ludmila is a magnificent fairy tale, a mythic epic with a nominal basis in historical events but featuring witches and wizards, giants and dwarves, heroes and villains. (cinemastrikesback.com)

The Golden Key, a 1939 movie combining live action and stop-motion animation.

By hot August, to the tsarina, with a hetman deed send in the capital of cossack. On a road he leads an acquaintance with the rakish Zaporozhian cossack. On a halt a new friend told that sold the soul to the devil and waits atonement. At night a cossack did not become lies down to sleep, decided to look that will be farther. As grew dark, a devil came into place of halt, and with her and tsar's deed. It had to the messenger to search a loss in the forest overwhelmed with impure force.

The animation film is made on Samuil Marshak's adaptation of Russian folk tale "Teremok"

Four evil wizards decided to regain their youth. But for this they needed to find people who were wasting their time. Luck smiled at them in the face of four careless schoolchildren. (imdb)

About the struggle for a new way of life. One of the residents of an old, dilapidated house receives a new apartment. But he can’t sleep in his new place: there are no bedbugs. The average person decides to fix the matter. Soon the new apartment turns out to be cluttered with all the accessories of bourgeois life. Bedbugs immediately appear. “Enough!” — the announcer’s voice is heard. A strong whirlwind clears the apartment of rubbish, and the tenant himself is thrown into the bathtub.