The Complete Works of Yuri Norstein (DVD NTSC)

i was in russia last summer and happened to stumble upon a children's book called "hedgehog in the fog". im not fluent enough to have read the whole book, but the pictures were beautiful enough to make me buy it. with further research i found out about the cartoon, etc, and the minute i saw it on youtube i looked everywhere for a copy to buy.these are literally some of the most beautiful animations i have ever seen. the stories and the characters are absolutely wonderful. it really puts you in a beautiful place for a while.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE!!

Yuri Norstein is a genius and these films are mysterious, magical, deeply meaningful. The copies though supplied on this video are not the highest quality, I saw better versions on a PAL format DVD from Russia (no English subtitles though). So just a small quibble and disappointment that the images weren't quite as good as they originally were.

I have been a fan of Yuri Norshtein's work since I first saw his animation film "The tale of tales" at 14 years old many years ago. These animation films are very poetic, nostalgic and beautiful. They're also made using a custom-made technique that re-creates fog, perspective and facial mimics - back in the 1970s! The films are slow paced, which is rare now. I have shown and given this as a present to my friends in Spain, Denmark and USA, and they all loved it. This is the best of the best of Russian animation.

Yuri Norstein's incredible cutout animations are all assorted in this DVD.From children to adults, anybody would enjoy it with the painstaking but such a rewarding cutout animation maybe only Russians could be able to make.Especially, 'Tale of Tales' would be the cream of the crop.After watching it, everyone would agree Yuri Norstein is a Dostoevsky in cutout animation field, indeed.A must-see.

Magic and emotion ... Russian Yuri NORSTEIN's wonderful animation movies are all the more fascinating as they were created with very limited material and financial means. DVDs proposing his works are only available, in France, through AMAZON.com. : they are sold out everywhere else.

An amazing collection of one the greatest animators! Tale of Tales and The Hedgehog in the Fog are my favorites but all of the films are great!

Hedgehog in the Mist and Tale of Tales are among the most poetical animations ever. The emotional and narrative complexity of the latter is rendered with a beguiling invention and immediacy.

This slavic master is not only an official in his artform, but also a communicator, he saw something, he heard lamenting and he portrayed it drammatically in a series of dream-like plays, personally, full of warmth and intimacy.Great!

Bought it for the hedhehog film which i have on video where it's dubbed really nicely. This was in Russian with English subtitles which block the view and the combo wreck the atmosphere. Disappointed.