Аватар персоны Mikhail Volpin

Mikhail Volpin

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28-12-1902

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M. Volpin, Михаил Давыдович Вольпин, М. Вольпин

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Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire [now Belarus]

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Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1

Volume 1 (1962-1968): "Story of One Crime", "Man in the Frame", "My Green Crocodile", "There Lived Kozyavin", "Mountain of Dinosaurs", "Passion of Spies", "Glass Harmonica", "Ball of Wool", "Singing Teacher", "Film, Film, Film".
0.0

Year:

2000

Donkey's Hide

Donkey's Hide

At the festivities marking the christening of princess Theresa, daughter of King Gaston IX, a wicked fairy made a mysterious prophecy about the girl's life. Seventeen years later, Theresa falls in love with a poor prince named Jacques. Then the prophecy starts coming true...
6.1

Year:

1982

The Nightingale

The Nightingale

Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes are integrated in this marvelous Russian adaptation by fairytale master Nadezhda Kosheverova.
5.8

Year:

1980

The Bat

The Bat

Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.
6.1

Year:

1979

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale

This is the second story from a series of adventures of the brave warrior Ilya of Murom. This time he is moving towards the city of Kiev and on the way accomplishes his great and small feats. Arriving at the gates of Chernigov city, Illya discovers that black vorogs are circling around the city. Having settled with them, Ilya Muromets meets the locals, who offer him the honorary position of governor. But the hero refuses the offer, because he needs to move towards Kiev and fight with evil spirits.
7.2

Year:

1978

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder

A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.
6.8

Year:

1977

Ilya Muromets (Prologue)

Ilya Muromets (Prologue)

Paralyzed Ilya Muromets receives heroic strength.
0.0

Year:

1975

Fire

Fire

A boy goes through time, helped by a wise clock, and learns to appreciate human ingenuity.
0.0

Year:

1971

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
6.4

Year:

1968

The Bouquet

The Bouquet

A husband becomes unfaithful to his wife, and buys a bouquet of flowers which he wants to give an another woman. But that woman doesn't come to the meeting, so he tries to get rid of the bouquet.
0.0

Year:

1966

Father Frost

Father Frost

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
6.3

Year:

1965

Nargis

Nargis

On the motifs of the story of S.Rashidov “A Kashmir song”. Spring Flower Nargis waits for the master of bees Bambur whom nobody has seen yet. A witch transforms the master of storms Chorud into a young man and lets him pass as Bambur, but her trick is unmasked. Chorud kills Nargis, but Bambur revives her. A tale by the old ( Cell animation) master Polkovnikov, (1908-1982) whose active career as animation director stretched from 1933 till 1980.
0.0

Year:

1965

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep

The tale follows the romance between a china shepherdess and a china chimney sweep who are threatened by a carved mahogany satyr who wants the shepherdess for his wife.
7.0

Year:

1964

The Brave Tailor

The Brave Tailor

The story of how the young worker was bored with life.
8.0

Year:

1964

Story of One Crime

Story of One Crime

The story about an everyman who one morning suddenly leaps out on the courtyard and bludgeons two conversing housewives to death with a frying pan.
5.7

Year:

1963

A Bragging Ant

A Bragging Ant

5.0

Year:

1962

A Bragging Ant

A Bragging Ant

5.0

Year:

1962

The Wild Swans

The Wild Swans

When a witch transforms her brothers into swans, a young princess must find a way to change them back.
6.7

Year:

1962

The Key

The Key

The film is a cautionary tale about the need to develop good work habits, personal responsibility and conscience in life.
5.8

Year:

1961

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

On September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.
6.3

Year:

1960

Soon There Will Be Rain

Soon There Will Be Rain

A gambling-addicted old man loses all the water on Earth, condemning all living beings to death from drought.
0.0

Year:

1959

Soon There Will Be Rain

Soon There Will Be Rain

A gambling-addicted old man loses all the water on Earth, condemning all living beings to death from drought.
0.0

Year:

1959

Clumsy Friend

Clumsy Friend

Story of animal trainers at a circus.
0.0

Year:

1959

Return to Earth

Return to Earth

A herdsman leaves his flock for the city, dreaming of becoming a cosmonaut, but he is rejected. Working a small job in a film studio, he is singled out for his looks and becomes a stand-in for a star actor.
0.0

Year:

1959

The Paintjackers

The Paintjackers

When the clock strikes twelve in a toy store a bunch of paint tubes come to life.
5.4

Year:

1959

The First Violin

The First Violin

3.0

Year:

1958

Stories About Lenin

Stories About Lenin

A few stories about Vladimir Lenin.
6.2

Year:

1957

Gutta-Percha Boy

Gutta-Percha Boy

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...
8.0

Year:

1957

The Little Ship

The Little Ship

6.5

Year:

1956

Old Friends

Old Friends

The losers the wooden football players overheard the bear's talk about the upcoming water polo championship and decided to win the main prize (the car). To participate in the match, the wooden players took paint and repainted themselves as a water polo players. They called their team "Black swans" and nobody recognized them. But since they trained little and behaved rudely during the match in the pool, they lost again
7.0

Year:

1956

Behind the Footlights

Behind the Footlights

Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.
7.0

Year:

1956

Girl in the Jungle

Girl in the Jungle

One day, while walking through the jungle, the Girl saw in a cage a Tiger caught by hunters. Having pity on him, she released the striped predator. Instead of gratitude, Tiger prepared to eat the Girl. In response to the complaints of the Girl, Tiger declared that there was no justice on earth. To resolve the dispute, they turned to the Parrot and the Palm .
0.0

Year:

1956

The Enchanted Boy

The Enchanted Boy

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.
7.8

Year:

1955

Island of Mistakes

Island of Mistakes

A short animated film about poor student Kolya Sorokin, who is dragged by two swans to the island of errors. On the island, incorrect solutions cause a lot of problems for Kolya. These trials force the hero to approach his responsibilities in a different way.
7.7

Year:

1955

The Frog Princess

The Frog Princess

A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
7.0

Year:

1954

Post in the Mountains

Post in the Mountains

From Moscow senior lieutenant Lunin comes to serve at the border post. The hero is actively involved in the life of the outpost. Meanwhile, on the other side of the border, the Ismail-gang gang is intensifying its actions ...
4.5

Year:

1953

Sporting Honour

Sporting Honour

5.0

Year:

1951

A Wonder Mill

A Wonder Mill

The greedy king takes away the magic mill from the grandfather and the animals. Cartoon about the joint struggle for justice.
7.0

Year:

1951

When Christmas Trees Light Up

When Christmas Trees Light Up

On New Year's Eve, two lost in the woods toys try to prove to wild and hungry predators that they're not good to eat.
7.2

Year:

1950

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish

The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
8.2

Year:

1950

The Pipe and the Pitcher

The Pipe and the Pitcher

Girl named Zhenya goes berry picking with her family but struggles to find any berries. She meets an old forest spirit who offers her a magical pipe that reveals hidden berries in exchange for her jug. After realizing the pipe doesn't help her gather the berries, she learns the value of hard work and eventually fills her jug by picking the berries herself.
6.0

Year:

1950

The Horsemen

The Horsemen

A boy breeds horses on the plains between Belarus and the Caucasus. When the German invasion comes he joins the partisans as a horseman.
4.8

Year:

1950

Who Is The First?

Who Is The First?

The animation film in comic form shows the sporting struggle in the bicycle race between the forest animals: the Toptygin brothers, the Bunny and the Fox. After a long, exhausting struggle, the Bunny took the lead, however, prematurely fed up with the victory, shamefully loses the match: after detachment from the opponents the Bunny decides to rest lying under a tree , then bathes (right in the bicycle form - a T-shirt and shorts), forgets to control the time and loses the championship in the race.
0.0

Year:

1950

Someone Else's Voice

Someone Else's Voice

An obnoxious magpie returns to the forest from abroad and finds a most unenthusiastic audience for her jazz music.
4.0

Year:

1949

First Lesson

First Lesson

0.0

Year:

1948

Champion

Champion

10.0

Year:

1948

Fedia Zaitsev

Fedia Zaitsev

9.0

Year:

1948

Travel to the Land of the Giants

Travel to the Land of the Giants

Animated figures of a mantel clock - the boy Tock and his sister Tick set off to travel through the pages of the book “Travel to the Land of the Giants”. There they learn about the great construction projects of the Soviet Union and get acquainted with production processes.
0.0

Year:

1947

Hello, Moscow!

Hello, Moscow!

6.2

Year:

1945

Actress

Actress

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.
5.2

Year:

1943

The Old Jockey

The Old Jockey

About Trofimov, a well-known rider who goes on taking part in races in spite of the advanced age, until he realizes his time has gone and passes his experience on to his granddaughter’s fiance
4.2

Year:

1940

Volga - Volga

Volga - Volga

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
6.7

Year:

1938