Devil with the Sticky Label

Devil with the Sticky Label (1954) is a short Soviet puppet cartoon you can watch online on iFILM. In just ten minutes it takes on an old subject head-on: the trouble that drink brings into a home.

The villain here is a half-liter bottle that wanders the screen on its own and spreads chaos wherever it finds a welcome. The whole thing plays like a silent film — not a word spoken, only music and sharp propaganda rhymes. Vsevolod Shcherbakov and Boris Stepantsev directed it. A curious little specimen of how Soviet satire got along with stop-motion puppetry. Stream Devil with the Sticky Label (1954) online on iFILM.