Nikolay Erdman

Strange Russian fairy tale dealing with a boy and a girl who go through the strangest situations to be with one another... (imdb)

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. (imdb)

A country girl arrives in Moscow with a duck and has to adjust to the fast moving city life.

An aging jockey at the Moscow Hippodrome talks to his granddaughter about coming to the big city.

An unemployed man struggles with his situation as an economic boom surrounds him.

On the first of September, Fedya Zaytsev is the very first kid who comes to school. In his joy at realizing this, he draws a little man with an umbrella on the wall of his classroom with a piece of charcoal, realizing too late that this is against the rules. (youtube)

The first ever animated version of the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina". (imdb)

Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother". (imdb)

One day, Vasya journeys into the forest to meet his beloved Alyonushka, only to have her forcibly whisked away by the wretched Kashchej. To save her, Vasya must face a number of fabulous, archetypal tests. (imdb)

A young boy accidently stows away on a rocket flying to the Moon on a rescue mission. (imdb)

The rival of a worker on a Cossack stud farm exposes him during the war as a Nazi and rescues the owner's daughter from a train about to be blown up by partisans.

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months. (imdb)

An anti-authoritarian comedy based on the play The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman. This German-Finnish co-production has rarely been shown after it's release.