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Les Fables de Starewitch d'après La Fontaine DVD from Doriane Films.

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

The frogs have a democracy, but they beseech Jupiter to send them a king. Jupiter can hardly believe this amphibian foolishness, so he sends them a...

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

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...

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...

Aurélie, a fly, lives in the countryside with her uncle Anatole, a beetle. One day, while stealing honey, she is caught by a bee but saved by...

Jeannot, a young boy living in the countryside with his mother and grandfather, ventures into the forest at night to pick a fern flower before the...

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

A fable from La Fontaine.

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

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

A little girl tries to help her mother with the aid of an agile monkey.