Garri Bardin

Director

September 11, 1941 (84 years)

Orenburg, USSR (Russia)

Biography

Garri Yakovlevich Bardin (Russian: Гарри Яковлевич Бардин; born September 11, 1941; Orenburg) is a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his experimental musical and stop motion films. He was awarded the 1988 Short Film Palme d'Or for the Fioritures cartoon and the Order of Honour in 2011.

Filmography

6.3

Break!

This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.

6.9

Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood

A Soviet claymation short film created by Garri Bardin in 1990 that retells the story of Red Riding Hood while incorporating political metaphors and themes about the USSR's demise; the wolf representing communism, devouring innocent creatures who have never known him.

7.3

The Flying Ship

Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means.

6.8

Banquet

A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.

10.0

Choo-Choo

A film about a boy who made himself a very necessary nanny from old, unnecessary things - Chucha. On New Year's Day, Chucha came to life.

N/A

Brave Inspector Mamochkin

A story how traffic inspector Mamochkin punished someone who had disturbed public order.

6.8

The Ugly Duckling

Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind the farmyard kingdom fence, and discreetly slips it into the clutch laid by his partner... Very soon, a cygnet emerges, but as he in no way resembles any of them he is immediately stigmatized by the whole farmyard, enduring humiliations and suspicion on the part of his feathered companions. But in the end he becomes a magnificent white swan.

7.1

Conflict

The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned.

6.6

Pif-paf, oy-oy-oy!

A parody of the theatre world. The same piece is played out in a few different theatre styles: opera, avant garde, children's theatre, vaudeville etc.

8.0

Choo-Choo-2

The film is about a boy who made himself a very necessary stuffed nanny out of old, unnecessary things. And, as happens in fairy tales, the Scarecrow came to life. True friendship is not only about holidays, but also the harsh trials that the heroes overcome with honor.

5.9

Adventures of Homa

The story of how the lazy hamster Homa forced the Gopher to do all the daily chores for him.

N/A

To Reach the Sky

As children returned fallen star to the sky.

7.2

Twists and Turns

It is a story of the wire man who carried the protection of himself against associates to the point of absurdity, having altered his wife, his dog in a barbed wire, and he fenced off himself from the outwards things.

5.5

Marriage

The story of dating, love, marriage and family life, as shown by two ropes.

6.6

Puss in Boots

The cat in the bag arrives in Russia as part of humanitarian aid from America and gets young drunk and mountain-the patriot Karabasov, which offers to emigrate to America. Flying on the magic cat which uses the tail as a propeller, dropped over Europe. There conceited young man forgets about the invaluable services rendered him puss in boots, and he returns ungrateful back to Russia...

4.0

A Road Tale

A modern fairy tale about funny little cars.

5.0

Long Before When We Were the Birds

Story based on an ancient Gypsy Proverbs, which talked about how the thirst for gold, wealth deprived "Gypsy birds" their true form and turned into a wandering people.

3.3

Slipshod House-Painters

Story about how the plasticine heroes "Any" and "How" paint factorys fence. The film makes fun of slackers and bungler.

N/A

Bolero17

The film tells that a person, even in very difficult circumstances, is able to turn the tide.

N/A

Listening to Beethoven

The stone jungle of the gloomy city does not leave a single sprout of greenery. But nature is bursting out from under the slabs, bursting with the greenery of sprouts. And no matter how much the city tries to cope with unwanted vegetation, nature takes its course and greens it.