Władysław Starewicz Movies

A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and...

Alcoholism and its Ill-Effects was considered to be one of the most popular science propaganda (or educational) films produced in Russia before the...

The Mascot and his wife are on an island. When going out to fish, Mascot ends up being enchanted by a mermaid.

The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his...

When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a...

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first...

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long,...

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester,...

This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both...

The old Lion King, oblivious to the fact that he has become the laughing stock of his Royal household, dreams of more heroic days. Meanwhile, his...

The animated combat by night between stag beetles.

Two animated fables by La Fontaine "The Old Lion" ("Le lion devenu vieux") and "The Lion and the Gnat" ("Le Lion et le Moucheron").

A study of the legendary Polish cinemagician, whose exquisite model animations include the featurette The Tale of the Fox (1931), in which a typical...

While the twelve strokes of midnight slowly sound in the night and the lights go out in the windows of old Montmartre, a devil is born in a puddle of...

The Country Rat visits his friend the Town Rat, but finds that life in the great metropolis is rather too hectic (and dangerous - there's a live cat...

A little girl tries to help her mother with the aid of an agile monkey.