Soyuzmultfilm: Who's grazing in the meadow?

Runtime: 57 min.

Гадкий утёнок
The Ugly Duckling

Year: 1955
Country: USSR
Director: Vladimir Degtyarev
Genre: animation, short
Language: Russian
Runtime: 19 min.
Age: 0+
A duck discovers a strange egg in her clutch. And from it hatches the ugliest duckling. In the barnyard, he quickly learns how hard it is to be different from everyone else. When the ridicule and attacks become completely unbearable, the Ugly Duckling decides to flee.

An adaptation of the wise fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Кто пасётся на лугу (Весёлая карусель №5)
Who's grazing in the meadow

Year: 1973
Country: USSR
Director: Galina Barinova
Genre: animation, short
Language: Russian
Runtime: 1 min.
Age: 6+
A riddle song to music by Pakhmutova performed by the Big Children's Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television.

Глупая лошадь (Весёлая карусель №7)
Silly horse

Year: 1975
Country: USSR
Director: Galina Barinova
Genre: animation, short
Language: Russian
Runtime: 3 min.
Age: 0+
A screen adaptation of a children's song about a horse and galoshes, based on the lyrics by Vadim Levin.

Жила-была курочка
Once upon a time there lived a hen

Year: 1977
Country: USSR
Director: Boris Ablynin
Genre: animation, short
Language: Russian
Runtime: 9 min.
Age: 6+
A compassionate hen helps a cockerel who choked on a grain. A puppet tale about how everything is interconnected, based on the Russian fairy tale "The Cockerel in Trouble".

Догони-ветер
Catch up with the wind

Year: 1978
Country: USSR
Director: Boris Ablynin
Genre: animation, short
Language: Russian
Runtime: 16 min.
Age: 6+
A poetic puppet parable based on a fairy tale by Konstantin Ushinsky.

A horse serves its owner faithfully, but then old age comes and the animal is driven out of the house...

Лошарик
Losharik

Year: 1971
Country: USSR
Director: Ivan Ufimtsev
Genre: animation, short
Language: Russian
Runtime: 9 min.
Age: 0+
The fantastic animal Losharik – a horse made of wooden balls – is a new pupil of the juggler. The story of betrayal and forgiveness in a lyrical puppet cartoon.