Władysław Starewicz Movies

Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz.

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

short Starewicz documentary about his process of animation

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

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...

A reconstruction of mating rituals of stag beetles

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 animated combat by night between stag beetles.

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.