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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?

The 5th film made by the duo of Pekar and Popov. Very strong influence of the American UPA "limited animation" style here. Reminds me of some other films in a similar style made around the same time (e.g. Anatoliy Petrov's First). Sort of a wacky Looney Tunes-style film made mainly to entertain and without any real lesson (unless it's "be kind to animals", I guess?). I much prefer the film they made immediately after this one (Umka), which is a real classic.

And with this film, every Soviet cartoon released in 1946 (there were only 7) has now been translated. Though it's not my favourite of them, it's charming in its own way, especially the granny and granddaughter. Aleksandr Ivanov was a big fan of "the Disney style" and you can really tell. In later years, as relations with the US worsened and people at the studio began to critique Disney artistically as well, he was made to tone it down (most dramatically in the 1949 film Polkan and Shavka). The ending of the fairy tale is rather harsh by today's standards, but this was just after the great war, after all.