Valentina Brumberg

Cavalcade of Soviet animated propaganda shorts, made shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Includes an endorsement of the new Soviet-British alliance and a warning against spies and saboteurs, among other shorts.

Soviet cartoon about people living in the snowy north. (imdb)

A Soviet animation short ased on a Russian national fairy tale.

Soviet animation based on the Perrault fairytale.

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)

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

The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth to a son, Prince Gvidon (Gvidón.) The older sisters arrange to have the tsaritsa and the child sealed in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The sea takes pity on them and casts them on the shore of a remote island, Buyan.

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.

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

A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart. (imdb)

Sinbad the Sailor is a Soviet animated short by Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, released in 1944 by Soyuzmultfilm. The film is based on the Arab fairy tales about Sinbad the Sailor and his incredible adventures in foreign countries.

The careless and lazy girl went to the circus not fulfilled the homework. In the arena, the clown-magician suggested that the children replace the incorrectly written word "well-known". It soon became clear that this was a very easy task for all the guys except our heroine. It was her who magician invited to the arena and asked to write the word correctly, but she did not cope with the task.

A classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, “grandmothers of the Russian animation”. Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

The youngest son in a family inherits only a cat when his parents die. It turns out that it is a quite peculiar cat…