Władysław Starewicz Movies

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy...

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester,...

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He...

It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit for the...

A small group of animals gathers around a frozen pond. The animals then play together on the ice and in the snow. Later, when the season changes,...

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long,...

A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and...

The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his...

Based on the story "The Man from the Restaurant" by I. Shmelev. The creators of the movie are unknown. The movie is preserved without inscriptions.

A couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them. Lost movie.

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema.

A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.

The film tells the story of Judas and Satan wandering the world in search of a virgin who could become the mother of the new Evil.

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of...

A clockmaker’s daughter daydreams of a magic world inside a clock.

A little girl working as a carnival dancer is given a gift of a caterpillar as a joke. She spares the caterpillar's life, and becomes the Queen of...

The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typical style of making amusing films appropriate for...

This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both...