This was Amanov's final film, and his longest to date. I think there's something very calming and soothing about the recurring images in it, which have clearly been crafted with such care, even though the topic itself is a grim one.

Amanov's filmography on this site is now complete except for his 2002 film, which I have been unable to find Amanov's anywhere, nor even any images from it.

Agamurad Amanov's first film. I suppose he got the animation bug after being the originator, art director, voice actor and screenwriter of Mihail Aldashin's The Other Side (1993), so perhaps this should be viewed as his first solo film. I can't say I find it as interesting, though (nor as good as his later ones). I think it's trying to hint at something more profound (like "The Other Side"), but I just find it too simple, and the deeper meaning maybe a little forced.

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Hello. The second film in the series already has Russian subs, and I just made some for the first film today. Out of curiosity, what did you want the subtitles for?

I've thought for a while that the narration/dialogue in this series seems like a good one for those learning the language, since it's quite simple and everyday (not "literary" or flowery at all), and repetitive, but also prominently features quite a lot of the grammatical features and vocabulary that one would need to learn to be fluent in it.

But I don't know any student actually actively learning Russian, so I can't say whether my intuition is correct.

A brutally sad film. It's also worth noting that the country was in dire straights during the early 2000s. Life expectancy, for example, was way down from its high point in the 1980s and would not start to rise again until 2004. Amanov had once worked as a street sweeper in Moscow, and must have seen many tragedies first hand.

A funny and touching film. The director had himself worked as a street sweeper in Moscow before beginning his career in animation, which is perhaps why it has the ring of truth about it.

I wonder if we can have, or where to find, the Russian text/subtitles for these (or this) cartoons!! Thank you.

I can't help but feel that the style of this cartoon is inspired by Bronzit's brilliant and funny 1998 animation At the Ends of the Earth, though it's not as elaborate and the plot is far more adult-oriented.

I did my best to make this film somewhat presentable by attempting a reconstruction of the missing intertitles and translating them to English. Unfortunately, a lot of this is guesswork and I'm sure some of my guesses will be wrong. Georgiy Borodin wrote that seeing the reconstructed "full" version of the film in 2015 changed his opinion of it much for the better. Unfortunately, I can't find that version anywhere; only the one above seems to be online.

If it ever does get made public, though, perhaps some of my guesses in these subtitles will prove close to the mark, and it won't be too hard to adapt them to translate the ACTUAL intertitles.

Very much a cartoon aimed at young children, but the premise and the journey is charming. I don't think the character design is that interesting, but I like how they managed to create weather effects by using multiple glass sheets with cutouts moving at different speeds, and create sea waves by using sand.

The piano playing in this one is great, and Kovalevskaya does a pretty good job of arranging the story to fit the music. It's as good a depiction of Baba Yaga and her hut as any you're likely to find. I do wish that the drawing style was just a little less cutesy, though. I'm not sure why this one was 6 minutes instead of the typical 10-minute length. I wonder if something was cut?