Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Othello
The warmth of a Mediterranean setting contrasts with the coldness in Iago's heart, as he relentlessly turns his noble master, Othello, against the beautiful and innocent Desdemona. All the emotional intensity of Shakespeare's study of jealousy is co...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - As You Like It
A comic tale of love-tom youth, with the Forest of Arden as its sylvan stage. The idyllic backgrounds and wistful moods of Rosalind and Celia are sympathetically created by the unusual and visually appealing medium of painting in oils on cels.
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's dramatization of the alliances and intrigues that surrounded and finally destroyed the great Roman General is rendered with style and subtlety by superb cel animation. This study of personal power versus the good of the state is still ...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Hamlet
All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic d...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - A Midsummer Night's Dream
An animated adaptation of the play A midsummer night's dream, by William Shakespeare. Therein, a group of lovers have a series of comical adventures after several of them are enchanted by a magical elixir. The beauty of cel animation is that it can ...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Romeo and Juliet
The world's best-known love story. Rich cel animation captures the tension and romance felt by two young citizens of Verona, oppressed by family rivalries, yet bound by an all-consuming love. The contrasts between raging passions and tender moments ...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales -The Tempest
A marvelous and terrifying island, peopled by spirits and monsters, is the ideal setting for demonstrating how puppets can become extraordinarily convincing "actors". Caliban becomes an almost "human" monster and Prospero's magic brings the spirit A...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Twelfth Night
Dour Malvolio, beautiful Countess Olivia, disguised Viola and all the actors of this golden comedy are played by sophisticated puppets in this charming rendition. Achieving an exceptional fluency of movement for stop-frame animation, the film is utt...
Contributor(s): Kino-studiiï¸ a︡ "Soiï¸ u︡zmulʹtfilʹm" (Soviet Union)
Red Dawn
This program shows the logic of the events that led from the failure of czarist leadership—from repression, economic unrest, massive war casualties, and seemingly uncaring behavior by the government—to the success of the Bolsheviks and the insta...
Subject: Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Lenin and Me
Arthur Chidlovski, a Russian-born immigrant now living in the U.S., attempts to link his own past with that of his former country's. The story branches out from his single vantage point to encompass Russia's political, cultural and economic history ...
Subject: Soviet Union -- History