Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Children and Matches
TITLE DETAILS

Children and Matches

1969-07-11 · 5 min · ★ 6.5

Animation

A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure. 1968-69 was a crucial period of transition for the animator, breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and co-direct films. Not listed on imdb, this is one - if not the first - of his first solo works as director.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Yuri Norstein
Production companies
Soyuzmultfilm
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Cast unavailable.

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

The Big Bad Wolf
★ 6.5
The Big Bad Wolf1934Animation

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Once Upon a Studio
★ 8.3
Once Upon a Studio2023Animation

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

Sea Scouts
★ 6.4
Sea Scouts1939Animation

Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
★ 7.9
Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 12007Animation

Experience these masterpieces of storytelling from the creative minds that brought you Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and many more. With revolutionary animation, unforgettable music and characters you love, these dazzling short films have changed the face of animation and entertainment and are sure to delight people of all ages for years to come.

Baseball Bugs
★ 6.9
Baseball Bugs1946Animation

Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
★ 7.1
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales2008Animation

Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.

Ferdinand the Bull
★ 6.7
Ferdinand the Bull1938Animation

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

Hawaiian Vacation
★ 7.0
Hawaiian Vacation2011Animation

The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.

Welcome to the Club
★ 6.2
Welcome to the Club2022Animation

Heart set on becoming a princess, Lisa Simpson is surprised to learn being bad might be more fun.

Babes in the Woods
★ 6.1
Babes in the Woods1932Animation

Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.

Solid Serenade
★ 7.4
Solid Serenade1946Animation

Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.

Minions & More Volume 2
★ 7.4
Minions & More Volume 22022Animation

This collection of 11 short films produced by Illumination includes: From the "Despicable Me" franchise: Mower Minions (2016); Yellow Is the New Black (2018); Competition (2015); Cro Minion (2015); Binky Nelson Unpacified (2015); Panic in the Mailroom (2013). From the "Secret Life of Pets" franchise: Super Gidget (2019). From the "Sing" franchise: Eddie's Life Coach (2017); Gunter Babysits (2017). From the "Lorax" franchise: Serenade (2012); Wagon Ho! (2012).

The Ugly Duckling
★ 7.0
The Ugly Duckling1939Animation

An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.

Day & Night
★ 7.7
Day & Night2010Animation

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

Lou
★ 7.5
Lou2017Animation

A lost-and-found box holds a mysterious and unseen monster within.

Bobik Visiting Barbos
★ 7.2
Bobik Visiting Barbos1977Animation

Two dogs, one stray the other well-off, become friends.

Terra das Canções de Ninar
★ 6.4
Terra das Canções de Ninar1933Animation

A baby is transported to Lullaby Land, where pacifiers grow on trees, diapers, bottles, and potty chairs march on parade, and the gingham dog comes to life. He wanders into the "keep out" cave, full of things like scissors, knives, and fountain pens that are not for baby and begins smashing watches with hammers and playing with giant matches. The matches chase after him; baby escapes by riding a bar of soap across a pond, but the smoke from the matches turns into boogey-men. The benevolent sandman, dressed as a wizard, spots baby hiding and works his magic, bringing us back to the real nursery.

Party Central
★ 6.8
Party Central2014Animation

Mike and Sulley are back at Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first party, but no one’s showing up. Luckily for them, Mike and Sulley have come up with a plan to make sure “Party Central” is the most epic party the school has ever seen.

Affairs of the Art
★ 5.9
Affairs of the Art2021Animation

Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

Nullarbor
★ 7.3
Nullarbor2011Animation

An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Similar titles

COMBO
★ 6.0
COMBO2009Animation

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

Capture the Heart of That Day
★ 1.0
Capture the Heart of That Day2019Animation

It's the year 20XX, and the latest technologies are protecting the nature of rural towns. The main character, Ruuto, and Michi, are childhood friends. But during the second year of junior high, as Michi moves to an urban area, the two drift apart. Ruuto doesn't want Michi to forget him. Michi doesn't want to show her weak side. The two friends go their separate ways. Mobility services transcend space and time and connect their hearts.

It's Not Funny, It's Art
Not rated
It's Not Funny, It's Art2008Animation

Short animated film about Blanca, who tries to fathom art. When a painting makes her laugh out loud, her father reprimands her: "It is not funny, it is Art", he says. Blanca feels it is quite complicated. So when is something art? How do you have to look at it? And is it allowed to touch art, for example? When she fails to figure it out, she decides to imitate museum visitors. With great consequences.

The Forger
Not rated
The Forger2017Animation

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenager, he became a member of the French Resistance and used his talent to save the lives of thousands of Jews. The Forger is a well-crafted origin story of a real-life superhero.

Opened
★ 6.0
Opened2022Animation

For a kid to eat with an open mind, parents must also be open to changes. Opened is an animated short film about picky eaters. The story shows how parenting and environmental factors influence a kid's eating behavior.

Solar Beats
★ 8.4
Solar Beats2008Animation

Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.

Flammes
★ 6.5
Flammes1998Animation

Memories split in the space.

Éclats d'Orphée
★ 7.5
Éclats d'Orphée2002Animation

Film directed from the play "Orpheon", directed by François Tanguy, played by the Compagny of Raft.

Prometheus
Not rated
Prometheus1966Animation

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

My Small Doll House
★ 8.0
My Small Doll House2006Animation

My Small Doll House features a woman’s fear, fantasy, and anxious psychology toward the world by contrasting a doll and a girl playing with it in a box. The small box is a safe place hidden in her deep conscious world, but she must open it and step out of the world.

The Role of Chance
★ 7.4
The Role of Chance1984Animation

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.

The Smortlybacks
★ 4.8
The Smortlybacks2013Animation

On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

Frankenstein Punk
★ 7.1
Frankenstein Punk1986Animation

The story of Frank, a different creature, born to the song "Singing in the rain", that goes in search of happiness.

Anxious Body
★ 5.0
Anxious Body2021Animation

When living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines encounter, a new direction is born.

Candy Boy
★ 3.4
Candy Boy2007Animation

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.

Sunmoon
Not rated
SunmoonAnimation

Sunmoon is a visual experiment in "blended reality," seamlessly integrating live-action with computer-generated animation. The film follows a young woman's confrontation with her inner selves: Piper, a bionic manifestation of her doubts; Phany, an animal spirit totem; and Sunmoon, her human core. As the timer counts down, poetry and imagination become the only tools left to bridge the gap between digital isolation and human emotion.

Ingest
Not rated
Ingest2019Animation

A vlogger with a paper eating addiction is haunted by an offensive doodle from her past.

The Myth of the Water Goddess
★ 7.0
The Myth of the Water Goddess2022Animation

A little girl will have to sing to the mythical goddess of water so that this valuable liquid can reach her community.

Breathe
★ 6.0
Breathe2022Animation

At the bottom of the sea, a statue tries to rise to the surface to breathe.

The Burden
★ 7.2
The Burden2017Animation

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.