Soviet Fantasy Cinema

In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. A group of robbers kidnap May to use his magic talent: he feels sick when surrounded by gold, therefore he can feel gold from a long distance.

The story of fairy tale characters creating drama around nothing to the music "turu tutu tu turu tu turu tutu".

Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.

A lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century.

A Czar who attempts to trick a creature that demands tribute from him into taking a fisherman's baby instead of his newborn heir. Complications arise when the daughter of the creature, Barbara, requests a human suitor to find true love.

A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.

TV adaptation of Arkadiy Strugatskiy's and Boris Strugatskiy's novel "Monday Begins on Saturday".

In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. A rare astronomical phenomenon - the parade of planets - has a peculiar effect on several of the men.

An adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen".

Professor Tichy, to his surprise, discovers that the powerful electron brain he works with is starting to falsify the research results. Will the professor detect the conspiracy carried out by the hands of a naive mechanic suffering from loneliness in time?

In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor and the witch Naina. Three former suitors for her hand set out, as does Ruslan, to rescue Ludmila.

Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.

A young boy finds that he can use broken matches to cast magic, but only once. However, an evil wizard has taken notice, and hopes to manipulate the boy to make him just as evil as himself.

A man with imagination opposes a society without it. Society forces him to betray his freedom-loving spirit, but imagination is immortal.

Soviet television movie adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel "The Hobbit".

New adventures of Captain Vrungel, his mate Lom and ship-boy Vasiliy Lopotukhin.

After her sisters wreck his ship, a mermaid saves a human prince from drowning and is helped by a traveling handyman to reach out to him on land.

Having gone for a gift for his daughter, the father is captured by a monster. A poetic adaptation of a fairy tale by Sergey Aksakov.

The envious sisters of the young queen stand in the way of her happiness. A fairy tale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.

The mother is looking for the kidnapped children whom Baba Yaga has turned into fallow deer. The last work of director Aleksandr Rou.

The schoolgirl Masha finds herself in the fabulous City of cheerful workers, who are oppressed by the evil king Kropodin I with the help of servants and an invisibility cap. Before the townspeople finally get rid of the oppressors, Mashenka will be a participant in exciting events and adventures.

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

A brother and sister called Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while picking strawberries and are captured by an evil forest hag, who uses the two kids as slave labor - Kusti is put to work around the farm, while Iti looks after the hag's mischievous son, whom she names Bumpy due to the horn-like bumps on his head. When a chance to escape arises, the two kids take Bumpy with them. But how will a wild forest rascal like Bumpy adjust to life with Iti and Kusti's family?

A villain wants to stop the crew from getting to a gem that will bring life back to earth

In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.