# Glass Harmonica (Masters of Russian Animation)

The state comes into confrontation with director Andrei Khrjanovsky, who gives new vision to the masses and shows them a different horizon. Glass Harmonica was shelved by Soviet censors who found it ideologically disturbing and was finally released after perestroika. It was the first animated film score by the late legendary Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who was to collaborate with Khrjanovsky on more than half of his films. The animators Yulo-llmar Sooster and Yuri Nolyev-Sobolev were among the most important artists of the Soviet underground. Before finding refuge at Soyuzmultifilm, they participated in the famous and controversial Manege exhibit of underground art, which was eventually closed down by Khruschev and condemned by the Soviet press.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1968
- By: Andrei Khrjanovsky
- Genres: Animation, Fantasy
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/glass-harmonica-russian-animation)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/glass-harmonica-russian-animation?play=1)