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Animation is a tool of political propaganda. Animated political image, political poster, political advertising of the first years of Soviet power.The film is about the first Soviet animators - Dziga Vertov, Alexander Bushkin, Alexander Ivanov, Alexander Belyakov. The film is about the first experiments of Soviet animators in the 20s of the last century. Consultants - Nikolai Izvolov, Alexander Deryabin, Georgy Borodin, Natalia Chertova Used materials from Mark Lyakhovetsky, film archives in Belye Stolby and Krasnogorsk, the archive of the Museum of Cinema, as well as private archives of the Khodataev family, the family of Daniil Cherkess and Leonid Lazarev.

The film is based on the diaries of Nikolai Khodataev's brother, Alexei Khodataev, as well as on Nikolai Petrovich Khodataev's own notes and letters. The film uses materials from the private archives of the Khodataev family, as well as the collections of the Museum of Cinema and the Archive of Film and Photographic Documents in Krasnogorsk. Consultants - Nikolay Izvolov, Alexander Deryabin, Georgy Borodin, Natalia Chertova.

About two famous and talented artists, animation directors. The film uses unknown materials from cinema and private archives. Consultants - Nikolay Izvolov, Alexander Deryabin, Georgy Borodin, Natalia Chertova Used materials from Mark Lyakhovetsky, the film archives in Belye Stolby and Krasnogorsk, the archive of the Museum of Cinema, as well as private archives of the Khodataev family, the family of Daniil Cherkess and Leonid Lazarev.

About the artist, animator, director, and great storyteller Evgeny Migunov. About his work in animation, as well as funny pictures in Funny Pictures magazine.

Leonid Amalrik is the author of "The Grey Neck", "Thumbelina", "The Cat's House", "The Boat" (based on drawings by Vladimir Suteev). He was one of the first to create the musical genre in Soviet animation. Nikita Bogoslovsky was a regular composer of his films. Sergei Mikhalkov's fables were successfully embodied in his films. Leonid Amalrik often said, "The main thing in life is chance. Everything in life is determined by chance. I don't believe in the expression that everyone forges their own happiness." Another quote from him: "I attach great importance to two elements of life - intuition and a sense of proportion."

The doctor's daughters graduated from Higher Art and Technical Workshops and worked in Nikolai Khodataev's group. Witty and sparkling, they first established the practice of working with famous actors of the Moscow Art Theater at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. The most famous and significant animated films are "Fedya Zaitsev", "Big Trouble", "Canterville Ghost".

The son of a peasant from Kaluga province, a gifted artist, a graduate of Higher Art and Technical Workshops. He has created more than forty animated films, eight of them full-length. He is famous for the films "The Hunchback Horse", "The Winter's Tale", "The Stolen Sun", "Twelve Months", "Lefty", "How one man fed two Generals", "The Battle of Kerzhenets" (co-authored with Yuri Norstein). The first president of the Animation Association of Russia, a professor at VGIK, who raised a galaxy of brilliant animation artists and directors.

About the beloved director of the Higher Directing Courses, Joseph Yakovlevich Boyarsky. It's safe to say that modern animation would be different without him. Other names, other relationships, other feelings.

About Fyodor Khitruk, in which the authors gave the floor to the master: in this film, only Khitruk speaks. He talks about his profession, about the industry, about cinema and about life.

Vladislav Starevich is known as the founder of Russian animation. In this film, we will see his experiments and experiments in feature films, about which the audience knows very little.

The life story of the outstanding animator Yuri Merkulov.