Soviet Psychedelic Animation, part 3: Tarasov’s Contact
Many Russians learned the Godfather‘s Speak Softly Love from this cartoon. Filmed by Vladimir Tarasov in 1978, Contact is about the meeting of two worlds. The alien spaceship lands in a peaceful countryside where the Artist (modeled after John Lennon circa 1967) enjoys a peaceful landscape. Such encounter with the Alien seems to scare the Artist, but music helps to overcome a language barrier.
No Russian required.
HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ANIMATION 