The companies hope to create titles that can compete with the U.S. and European animated films dominating Russian screens. By Vladimir Kozlov MOSCOW – Russian theater chain operator Luxor and film ...

On April 11, Yuliana Slashcheva, chairman of the board of Moscow-based animation studio Soyuzmultfilm, published a column with Russian media outlet Snob in which she carefully addressed the current ...

Russian animation work, even during the Cold War, found its way to European TV screens, where characters were dubbed but fairy tale-inspired toons had deep appeal to non-Russian kids. These days, ...

Nikolai Serebryakov made his short film Klubok (Ball of Yarn) in 1968, but it remains an evocative piece of animated folklore. A poor old woman discovers a magical ball of yarn, but she gets too ...

She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation by Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness. Academic Studies Press. In this enlightening, rapid-fire analysis of 20th-century Russian and Soviet ...

PARIS, June 9. /TASS/. Leading Russian animation studios will show their productions at Europe’s largest International Animation Film Market (Mifa) that will be held from June 13 through to June 16 in ...

As Americans, we often associate fairy tales with smiling Disney princesses or animated versions of children’s classics. In the ancient context of global folklore, however, stories tend to be much ...

Russian officials are calling on parents to show their children Soviet-era cartoons instead of Western television shows. Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on March 29 that Soviet-era ...