Władysław Starewicz Movies

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...

A little girl working as a carnival dancer is given a gift of a caterpillar as a joke. She spares the caterpillar's life, and becomes the Queen of...

The film tells the story of Judas and Satan wandering the world in search of a virgin who could become the mother of the new Evil.

Jeannot, a young boy living in the countryside with his mother and grandfather, ventures into the forest at night to pick a fern flower before the...

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she...

A little girl tries to help her mother with the aid of an agile monkey.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy...

A reconstruction of mating rituals of stag beetles

The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typical style of making amusing films appropriate for...

A dog's shipboard honeymoon voyage takes a turn for the worse when a fierce storm hits the ship.

An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

A clockmaker’s daughter daydreams of a magic world inside a clock.

While a child sleeps her puppet dog creates a magical circus for her.