Aleksandr Ptushko Movies

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the...

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic...

Based on a famous fairy tale, in verse, by Alexander Pushkin, this ravishingly beautiful fantasy is about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family....

Sadko is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian epic tale of the same name. In the old Russian city of Novgorod,...

Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to...

Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to...

The Lost Letter (Russian: Пропа́вшая...

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the...

The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and...

This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of...

The story, a Communist re-telling of Gulliver's Travels, is about a young boy who dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in...

The Frog, the Mouse, the Hedgehog and the Rooster settle in and live together in the little house. The attempt of the Wolf, the Bear and the Fox to...

Pupils of the ordinary high school organize a “secret society” under the motto “Help the offended and weak, avenge widers and...

The Golden Key, a 1939 movie combining live action and stop-motion animation.

The wizard Finn sends Masha and Vanya on a journey through the fairy tale films of Aleksandr Ptushko, many dangers await them there.

Adaptation of Pushkin's fairy tales. The tale is about a fisherman who manages to catch a Golden Fish which promises to fulfill any wish of his in...

A Soviet musical animated film about how forest animals with Santa Claus decided to celebrate the New Year.

A stop-motion film based on the Grimm Brothers' folktale, "Town Musicians of Bremen".

Sinbad the Sailor is a Soviet animated short by Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, released in 1944 by Soyuzmultfilm. The film is based on the Arab...