Eastern European Animation

Eastern European Animation refers to Animated Shows from Eastern Europe, to include Russian and the now defunct Soviet Union, as well as most other ex-socialist European countries. Actually, classifying these as "shows" is very innacurate; some of them are features, some are actual shows; most of them are isolated shorts. In fact, there were no animated shows in Soviet Union; those that look like ones are series of loosely connected shorts, with long (sometimes over 10 years) intervals between "releases". Overall, network and medium seem to matter much less in Eastern European culture, at least to average viewer, so not making distinction between features, shorts and series on this page is justified.

See also Western Animation and Asian Animation.

Soviet/Russian

 * Thirty Eight Parrots
 * About Sidorov Vova
 * Adventures of Captain Vrungel
 * Adventures Of Mowgli: Five Russian shorts based on The Jungle Book.
 * The Adventures Of Buratino
 * The Adventures Of Prince Vladmir
 * Armen Film Animated Shorts (Armenian)
 * The Cat And The Tree
 * Captain Pronin
 * Cheburashka
 * Cossacks
 * Film Film Film
 * Firing Range
 * Hedgehog In The Fog
 * His Wife Is a Hen
 * Icarus and Wisemen
 * I Shall Give You a Star
 * Kitten Named Woof
 * Last Years Snow Was Falling
 * Leopold the Cat
 * Little Fox
 * Little Longnose
 * Mitten
 * Mother for Little Mammoth
 * Mr Walk
 * The Mystery of the Third Planet
 * Nu Pogodi
 * Once Upon a Dog
 * The Old Man And The Sea (Russian adaptation)
 * Plasticine Crow
 * The Scarlet Flower
 * Smeshariki/Go Go Riki
 * The Snow Queen (Soviet adaptation)
 * Suur Toll (Estonian)
 * The Soviet short and Russian animated film based on The Nutcracker
 * The animated adaptations of Tales of the Magic Land and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
 * There Lived Kozyavin.
 * Town Musicians of Bremen.
 * Pif - Paf, Oi-Oi-Oi
 * The Return of the Prodigal Parrot
 * Three From the Prostokvashino Village (Prostokvashino can be loosely translated as Buttermilk)
 * Holidays in Prostokvashino
 * Winter in Prostokvashino
 * Welcome: A Soviet adaptation of Dr Seuss' Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose.
 * The Very Blue Beard
 * Vinni Pukh (Soviet Winnie the Pooh shorts)
 * Vovka In Far Far Away Kingdom (Vovka v Tridevyatom tsarstve)
 * Five short 1970's cartoons based on Greek Mythology. Remarkably close to the original material, especially considering the heavy Socialistic undertones. Possibly unique in not giving Princess Andromeda a Race Lift. The shorts are "Return from Olympus" (occurring in modern times, with flashback to the Labors of Heracles), "Labyrinth(about Theseus, naturally), "Argonauts", "Perseus", and "Prometheus".
 * Tale of Tales
 * Melnitsa Studio's "3 Bogatyrs" movies
 * Alesha Popovich and Tugarin Zmei
 * Dobrynia Nikitich and the Serpent Gorynych
 * Il'ia Muromets and the Nightingale-Robber
 * and to top the trilogy, Three bogatyrs, featuring all three heroes

Czech

 * Ríkání o víle Amálce (Stories of Amelia the Forest Sprite)
 * Krtek, Krteček ("The Little" Mole)
 * Staflik A Spagetka
 * The thirteen Tom and Jerry Czech shorts (Part of a Western series)
 * Just about anything by Gene Deitch after 1960. However, most of them were made for and financed by American distributors.
 * Fantastic Planet
 * The Foolish Frog
 * The Vanished World of Gloves

Polish

 * Bolek and Lolek
 * David and The Magic Pearl, a.k.a. Dawid i Sandy

Hungarian

 * Cat City (Macskafogó), a.k.a. The Cat Trap and its sequel.
 * The District! (original title: Nyócker!)
 * Son of the White Horse (original title: Fehérlófia)
 * Hugo The Hippo
 * Hófehér
 * Kérem a következőt! a.k.a. Doktor Bubó
 * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kock
 * Ludas Matyi
 * Maestro, an Academy Award-nominated CGI short.
 * Magyar Nepmesek
 * A Mézga család
 * The Princess and The Goblin
 * The Seventh Brother (original title: A Hetedik Testvér)
 * Three Dirty Dwarves (Part of a video game)
 * Time Masters (a Franco-Hungarian effort)
 * Treasure of Swamp Castle (original title: Szaffi).
 * Vuk the Little Fox
 * Kis Vuk, a.k.a. A Fox's Tale, a rather poorly-recieved sequel.
 * Willy the Sparrow

Other Eastern European

 * Miaunel and Balanel - Romania (shown in North America on Pinwheel in the 1980s)
 * Professor Balthazar - Croatia
 * Technotise Edit I Ja - Serbia
 * The Elm Chanted Forest - Croatia