Soviet cartoons, the list of which is given in this article, are dearly loved by more than one generation of viewers. Many note their chastity, kindness and honesty.
"Losharik"
A list of Soviet cartoons that are suitable for modern children, you can find in this article. In those days, puppet animated films were extremely popular in the Soviet Union. One of the most famous of them is the cartoon "Losharik".
It was released in 1971, directed by Ivan Efimtsev. This is a good children's fairy tale, which tells about a miniature horse made of juggler balls. Her name is Losharik. All she can do is perform in the circus.
Losharika created a juggler, who actually dreamed all his life to become a trainer. But colleagues on the stage constantly mock the main character, claiming that he is a fake beast, so the tiger and lion do not want to speak with him.
Due to the fact that Losharik could not find friends, the juggler is also very worried. He is forced to say goodbye to him. The main character is so upset because of this that he crumbles, giving his balls to all the guys he meets.
The juggler waited for his finest hour, he enters the circus stage as a trainer. But the audience is not enthusiastic about the tiger and the lion, they demand Losharik. Children throw balls on the stage, and the juggler brings their favorite artist back to life. At the end, the cartoon "Losharik" teaches that real friends know how to forgive.
"Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom"
When compiling a list of Soviet cartoons that everyone needs to see, one must not forget about Boris Stepantsov's Vovka in the Far Far Away. This is a brilliant animated film, which is distinguished not only by a fascinating plot, but also by humor, which is liked by both adults and children.
The main character of the cartoon "Vovka in the Far Avengers Kingdom (1965) is a lazy schoolboy. He has read fairy tales and now wants to become a master, by order of which all wishes would be fulfilled.
To show him what such desires can lead to, the librarian creates a painted boy and sends him to the fairy kingdom. In the cartoon "Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom" (1965), it turns out that in the fictional world the tsar himself paints a fence, and now he is threatening a schoolboy to chop off his head for parasitism. He finds himself in several tales, but nowhere is his desire to get everything done without doing anything is encouraged. In the final, Vovka himself makes a trough for an old woman from Pushkin's fairy tale about a fisherman and a fish.
"Baba Yaga Against!"
Soviet cartoon "Baba Yaga against!" (1979) was released just before the Olympic Games in Moscow. Soyuzmultfilm Studio specially released it for this significant event.
This tale of Vladimir Pekar tells a fictional situation in which fairy-tale heroes oppose the Olympics in the Soviet Union. In the cartoon "Baba Yaga Against!" (1979) A bear chosen by the mascot of games is inserted with sticks in the wheels of Koschey, Baba Yaga and Zmey Gorynych.
First, they try to prevent him from getting to the games, and then participate in them.
"The Scarlet Flower"
Many Soviet cartoons, the list of which is given in this article, were shot based on famous fairy tales. In 1952, at the Soyuzmultfilm movie of the same name by Sergei Aksakov was filmed.
In the cartoon "The Scarlet Flower" (1952), a wealthy merchant goes on a long journey. Before that, he asks his daughters what to bring to them. One asks for expensive jewelry, the second asks for a magic mirror, and the youngest asks for an ordinary scarlet flower.
The trip is successful, he finds everything except a flower. On the way back, the ship falls into a storm, the merchant throws it onto the island. It is there that he finds the flower Nastya asked him to. But as soon as he is torn down, a terrible monster appears who claims to take one of his daughters in return. The monster gives him a ring with which you can transfer to the island. The merchant does not want to give anyone away and decides to sacrifice himself, go to the island and accept death.
But Nastenka overheard his conversation, secretly from her father she puts on a ring and is transported to the monster. She is greeted by an invisible master, settles the girl in the palace. Once she accidentally notices a monster in the yard. At first he is afraid of him, but gradually gets used to it.
Over time, she is allowed to go see her relatives, but she is punished to return at dawn, otherwise the owner of the island will die of anguish.
She comes home with rich gifts and a magnificent outfit. Envious sisters move the clock back and lock the shutters so Nastya does not see the dawn. The upset main character finds the monster at death, she begins to cry, and at that moment the monster turns into a handsome prince.
In the ending of the animated film "The Scarlet Flower" (1952), it turns out that the witch enchanted the prince, saying that he would live in such a guise until a beautiful girl fell in love with him.
Mowgli
In 1973, Roman Davydov made the animated film "Mowgli". This is a film adaptation of the famous "Jungle Book" written by Rudyard Kipling.
In the cartoon "Mowgli" - five parts. The first is called Raksha. In it, a little boy finds himself in the jungle. He is raised in a family of wolves. Raksha's name is a wolf mother. She calls him Mowgli, which literally means "frog", saves from the tiger Sherkhan. A wolf pack educates a human baby, as his own. But the decision about whether he can stay among the animals when he grows up is made at a general council.
The wolves doubt, then the boy is saved by the wise panther Bagheera, having given a ransom for him - the buffalo she had just killed.
In the second part of "Abduction" of the cartoon "Mowgli", a human cub studies at the Balu Bear School. He quickly grows up and assimilates. Once he rescues an elephant calf Hatha from a trap, then the news that a man lives among the animals reaches the banderlog monkeys. They decide to make Mowgli their leader. To do this, they abduct him and transfer him to an abandoned city in the jungle.
Of the animals, no one wants to mess with banderlogs. They are only afraid of the python Kaa. As a result, Balu and Bagheera enter the fray, and Kaa plays a decisive role, which, with the help of hypnosis, stops banderlogs and frees Mowgli.
In the third part, titled "Akela's Last Hunt," Mowgli has already grown. To have weight in the pack, he needs to arm himself. Kaa helps him find the ancient dagger, and from Bagira he learns about the existence of fire, which everyone here calls the Red Flower. Mowgli makes his way to the people and takes away a pot of coals. At this time, the tiger Sherkhan, wanting to overthrow the leader Akela, creates confusion. The latter is saved only by the intervention of the protagonist.
In the “Battle” part, a terrible threat looms over the wolf pack and everyone else. Hundreds of bloodthirsty red dogs approach the jungle, as the red wolves are described. Mowgli with friends gives them a fight and wins.
The last part is called "Return to the people." A drought sets in the jungle. Akela dies, Mowgli becomes the head of the pack instead. The tiger Sherkhan violates the law of truce, which operates during a drought. Then Mowgli with the herd of buffalo defeats the enemy. After that, he decides that it is time to go back to the people.
So this cartoon of the Soyuzmultfilm studio ends, which was released in 1973.
"The Bremen Town Musicians"
Many fans of the Soviet animation remember the "Bremen Town Musicians", shot by Inessa Kovalevskaya based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. At that time, this cartoon became extremely popular. Largely due to the music with elements of rock and roll, which was specially written by Gennady Gladkov specially for The Bremen Town Musicians in 1969. All songs were performed by Oleg Anofriev, he voiced most of the characters, with the exception of Donkey and Princess.
In parallel with the release of the cartoon on the screens, gramophone records appeared on which the main compositions were recorded. The records dispersed with a bang, in two years 28 million copies were sold.
The main character of this cartoon is the young Troubadour. With his friends - Cat, Donkey, Rooster and Dog - he arrives at the royal palace. They have a scheduled performance there. At the very end of the concert, the young man notices a beautiful Princess, who simply captivates him.
True, the tour ends unsuccessfully. During the performance of one of the numbers, the artists all fall out of hand, and the King kicks them out of the palace. On the way back, the musicians come across the Ataman’s hut and the robbers planning an attack on the royal motorcade. Friends, frightening the bandits, occupy their home and come up with an original plan. Having changed into robbers, they abduct the King and leave him bound in the forest.
The king, left alone, decides that his days are numbered, but then he hears in the distance the song of Troubadour about his unhappy love. The monarch asks him for help. A young man with friends is playing a battle in a hut of robbers, having arranged there a real pogrom. The grateful King agrees to the union of the Princess and Troubadour.
The only problem is that the friends of the protagonist are not allowed into the castle. They call their comrade all night, and in the morning the sad ones leave home. Halfway they are caught up by the Princess and Troubadour, who secretly slipped out of the castle and are now ready for new adventures.
"In some kingdom"
The cartoon "In a Kingdom" (1957) begins with the story of a simple peasant guy Emelya, who lives with his mother. Once he goes to the well for water and catches a pike in a bucket. Emelya is already dreaming which ear will be boiled out of her, and she begins to speak with him in a human voice. He asks to be released, in return promises to fulfill any of his wishes.
At the same time, King Peas orders his daughter Mary to prepare for the upcoming wedding. An overseas prince with matchmakers rides to them. Not far from the palace, Emelya crashes into their carriage, who was driving into the forest for firewood. With great difficulty, the prince nevertheless gets to the palace and invites the princess to a dance at the evening party.
Emelya, on the other hand, finds Mary’s portrait in the overturned carriage and makes plans for her to love him. Right during the dance, Marya faints, and when she comes to, she realizes that she already loves another. Because of her obstinacy and unwillingness to marry an overseas prince, the king puts his daughter in the tower so that she changes her mind.
The king, having learned about the offender of the prince, orders to bring him to the palace. Emelya goes to the emperor riding a furnace. Enraged by such disrespect, Peas orders him to be imprisoned in a tower occupied by Marya.
The king lets her daughter go and tells her to go out to the one she really loves, hoping that now she will definitely be reunited with the prince. Instead, she chooses a simple peasant. The offended prince declares war on King Pea and sends his soldiers to him. But Emelya, this time, uses a pike spell and emerges victorious from this battle. Then the king agrees to his marriage with Mary, and they happily live together.
"Ugly duck"
The work of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen was repeatedly filmed, but the Soviet audience is most famous for the cartoon “The Ugly Duckling” of 1956, shot by Vladimir Degtyarev. This animation work has earned recognition abroad. The film received a diploma from the International Film Festival in London.
Soviet animators embodied the classic plot on the screen. In spring, young ducklings hatch, all are good as a selection. And only the very last is very different from the rest. They immediately call him ugly.
The next morning, the mother with the chicks goes out into the yard. She is considered the most noble here. But no one likes the ugly duckling, they just call him a freak, they scoff at him and offend him. He runs away from them, squeezes through the fence and disappears.
For a long time he wanders in search of refuge, the main thing is that he cannot understand why he seemed to everyone so ugly. Soon he sees beautiful swans, he still does not know what these birds are called, but he is so delighted with them that he wants to fly away with the flock.
In the end, he goes to the shore of the lake, and remains there. During the day, he tries not to show himself to anyone, and at night crawls out to swim, spread his wings and try to fly. So goes the whole summer.
In the fall, the cold came, it becomes unbearable to stay on the lake. The ugly duckling with longing watches as all the birds fly away to the warm lands. When frost sets in, he decides to take a desperate step, ask to fly with another flock of birds, deciding that it is better to let them peck at him than to stay here alone.
Having got out into the daylight, he notices his reflection in the lake. Suddenly, the beautiful swans agree to take him into their family, together they fly to warmer climes and fly over the bird's yard along the way in which he was born. None of its inhabitants suspects that the beautiful bird that hovers above their heads is that same ugly duckling.
"Thumbelina"
Cartoon "Thumbelina" in 1964 was shot at the studio "Soyuzmultfilm". The director was Honored Artist of the USSR Leonid Amalrik. This is another film adaptation of Andersen's tale, which was extremely popular in the USSR. The total circulation of his books was the highest among all foreign writers.
This is a story about a girl who was born from a flower bud. She was no more than an inch tall, and for this she got her name. At her adoptive mother, she lived on a dressing table, a nut shell served as her bed.
Once she was seen by a toad from a nearby swamp. For some reason, she decided that Thumbelina would be a wonderful wife for her son. She stole it at night and settled on a water lily.
Thumbelina categorically did not want to marry the son of a toad. Soon, fish came to her aid. They called for a hermit crab, who ate a claw leaf leaf. Toads rushed in pursuit, at the last moment Thumbelina was saved by the May bug, which helped her escape from her pursuers. This beetle so admired the beauty of the girl that invited her to become his wife. Thumbelina was flattered, but his friends did not like her, so she had to give up the idea.
So Thumbelina was left to live alone in the forest. In the autumn, she was sheltered by a field mouse, who also decided to arrange the girl’s family happiness, betraying her mole as her neighbor. He was very wealthy and at the same time very stingy. He agreed to marry only because Thumbelina ate very little. Thumbelina was afraid of the prospect of living all in the dungeon with a mole, in the end she asked to go upstairs to say goodbye to the sun. There she met a swallow she had once helped. The swallow took Thumbelina to the warm lands, to the country of elves. There, the girl met the handsome prince, who became her husband.
Hedgehog in the Fog
The cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog" in 1975 is one of the most famous Soviet cartoons in the world. Filmed by director Yuri Norshtein.
This is a story about a Hedgehog who went on a visit to Teddy Bear to drink tea and look at the stars. On the way, he meets a white horse in the fog. He is afraid that she might drown, so he goes down to her from the hill and himself is lost in the fog. In the distance he hears someone's voice, begins to rush and falls into the river. It carries with the stream, and only someone soundless helps him to get ashore. There the Bear cub finds him.