Movies: Mikhail Tumelya

Yuriy Norshteyn, Russia’s most renowned animator, has crafted many brilliant works, including his award-winning Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in the Fog. He is revered by animation creators across the globe, most notably Japanese masters Osamu Tezuka, H...

An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition. Described using a combination of hist...

The history of Russian animated films....

The cartoon tells about a girl who was sent by an evil stepmother to get tortillas and the secret of making them to her grandmother, who lives in the Lafertovo part of Moscow....

In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women....

A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts....

A visual fantasy, based on Gershon Kingsley's famous melody "Popcorn....

A music video made collaboratively for the strange 1994 song by French band Les Pirez, which had become a hit at one of the main Russian domestic animation festivals....

The life story of one ball....

Based on a Belarussian folk song, movie tells a story of a poor peasant who goes to serve the landlord and is not successful in it....

This lively piece uses the traditional Belarusian vycinanka (papercut) style to illustrate eight well-known proverbs through humorous visual vignettes. To complement the folklore-based storytelling, it features music by ethno‑trio Troitsa....

A musical film in the style of Belarusian vycinanka based on the song of the folk band Troitsa. The old man and woman have become quite old and would like to marry their son before they die. So they send him to find a bride....

About how the Martians got to a Belarusian village for a wedding....

Based on an old humorous Belarusian song. A peasant hired by a lord receives his well-deserved pay: for the first summer — a hen with chicks, for the second — a duck, for the third — a goose, for the fourth — a turkey, for the fifth — a calf, for the...

Parody history of adventures of a knight in the spirit of ancient ballads....

The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette g...

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