Władysław Starewicz Movies

The misadventures of a traveling theatrical company, as the actors attempt to put on a show while romantic rivalries erupt backstage.

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

Formerly Prince Tchao-sin loved Princess Hadjuin-li, but the wicked Lao-Tchang opposed their happiness. Eager to escape him, the two lovers set out...

Alcoholism and its Ill-Effects was considered to be one of the most popular science propaganda (or educational) films produced in Russia before the...

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...

An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

Two animated fables by La Fontaine "The Old Lion" ("Le lion devenu vieux") and "The Lion and the Gnat" ("Le Lion et le Moucheron").

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

A fable from La Fontaine.

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...

The animated combat by night between stag beetles.

The Mascot and his wife are on an island. When going out to fish, Mascot ends up being enchanted by a mermaid.

1925 animated french short by Starewicz

A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée

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

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

While the twelve strokes of midnight slowly sound in the night and the lights go out in the windows of old Montmartre, a devil is born in a puddle of...

In an animal school in the heart of Africa a giraffe wonders about the trip to Paris.