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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Yuri Norstein meets true crime in the latest episode of Criminal, the popular podcast hosted by Phoebe Judge. In “Only in Hollywood,” Judge — who has an eye for oddball tales of wrongdoing — recounts ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, May 16. /TASS/. Soviet cinema sex symbol of his generation Oleg Vidov has died on Tuesday in his home in Westlake Village, California, USA at the age of 73, his widow Joan Borsten told ...

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