Save your money for something good and enjoyable

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

"Koshkin dom" or "The Cat's House" is a 29-minute animated short film from the Soviet Union. The people who made this one were director Leonid Amalrik and writers Nikolay Erdman and Samuil Marshak. While the latter is mostly known for his live action work, the other two have made themselves a solid name in terms of Soviet animation. I don't think this one here contributes a whole lot to their bodies of work. It is a prime example of quantity of quality. They included so many animals in here, such as goats, pigs, chicken, cats and others of course too, but they failed to properly elaborate on most of these and the result is a very mediocre short film that is nowhere near the best the Soviet Union had to offer in terms of animation. The quality of the visual side is fine for an almost 60-year-old film, but it clearly comes short in terms of story-telling and the music wasn't really good either. This one dragged, even at under half an hour, on quite a few occasions. I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

"Koshkin House" was indeed produced in the former soviet union but it has a lesson for everyone. A well to do cat lives with her man servant in a beautiful house. She has the neighbors over for a night of entertainment and impresses the hell out of them - negatively! Meanwhile two orphan kittens keep coming to the house asking for help but are chased away repeatedly. After her "friends" leave the festivities the house burns, making the cat and her servant homeless. The two of them go to their so-called "friends" residences asking for shelter and are rebuffed by all of them. On the verge of freezing to death the cat and her servant come across a little shack and ask for shelter... Are they in for the surprise of their lives! No spoiler here.