Crossroads

Crossroads (1931) is an early Soviet animated short you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Lev Atamanov and Vladimir Suteev made one of their first joint works — eleven minutes of hand-drawn animation with the pointed social humour typical of the period.

Atamanov went on to direct The Snow Queen (1957) and The Scarlet Flower; Suteev became one of the Soviet Union's most beloved children's book illustrators. This short is early proof of both. Watch Crossroads (1931) on iFILM.