The film is based on a fairy tale by Grigory Kruzhkov "Where the old woman's five came from". This is a cautionary tale about an old woman who went to school for grades, and a principled teacher, as well as about the original use of fours, fives and even stakes with twos in the household.
The film is based on a fairy tale by Grigory Kruzhkov "Where the old woman's five came from". This is a cautionary tale about an old woman who went to school for grades, and a principled teacher, as well as about the original use of fours, fives and even stakes with twos in the household.
A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter.
The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.
Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.
An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.
Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.
A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.