of the new names of the directors – Eduard Nazarov ( (1977), Once Upon a Dog (1982), (1983)) and Garri Bardin, experimenting with unconventional textures and materials ( (1983)). In 2012, the film Once Upon a Dog was recognized as the best Russian film in 100 years at the Open Russian Festival of Animated Film in Suzdal. Leonid Nosyrev explored the Russian North folklore with a series of films based on the stories by Boris Shergin and Stepan Pisakhov: If you don't like it – don't listen (1977), (1979), Arkhangelsk Novels (1986). The domestic animation became a multigenre form of national cinema – the studio actively produced philosophical parables, extended social metaphors, tragicomedies, satirical short films, poetry films, romantic ballads. Reformation period Among the best films made at the studio in 1984–1990: The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Lev Milchin, (1985) by Eduard Nazarov, (1987) by Eduard Nazarov, the animated series (1984–1988) by and , (1987) by Andrei Khrzhanovsky and , (1988) by and Peep Pedmanson, (1988) by Alexey Turkus, Alexey Shelmanov, Vasily Kafanov, (1989) by Yelena Gavrilko, (1989) by , (1985), (1986), (1987), (1987), Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood (1990) by Garri Bardin. The short film was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988. In the late 1980s, gifted masters of stop motion animation appeared in the studio's team – ( (1984), (1986)), (The Crow of an Amorous Disposition (1988), Ancient Lyrics (1989)), (How Ninochka became a Princess (1990), (1992)). Throughout its history, Soyuzmultfilm collaborated on a number of various projects with film and animation studios of Europe and Asia. In 1981, the musical feature film Maria, Mirabela, in which Lev Milchin and Victor Dudkin appeared as production designers, was released together with the Romanian studio Casa de Filme 5 and Moldova-Film. In 1987, the animated trilogy The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin, directed by Gennady Sokolsky and Kenji Yoshida, was released jointly with the Japan's Lifework Corporation. Since 1989, in collaboration with S4C (UK) television channel the series of the anthology Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, based on the plays of William Shakespeare, began. The series was co-directed by several Russian animators – Stanislav Sokolov, , Nikolay Serebryakov, Yefim Gamburg and . The premiere took place in 1992 on BBC2. The show was highly praised by viewers and critics and won three Emmy Awards. In the second