Abstract
The author considers two Russian films of Soviet period – Happiness (1934) by A. Medvedkin and Believe it or Not (1983) by S. Ovcharov. Not out of synk with traditional referring them to a Russian national lubok genre (known abroad as Russian comics) the author attempts to include them into an “umbrella” universal context of movie comics in capacity of a proto-comics as the national variant with distinctive dialectics of folklorism and national spirit. The both specimen’s narration demonstrate a sophisticated artistic form in combination with imaginary naivete, conveying the national ethos, which activates cinema’s communicative function and makes the author’s message comprehensible a for broad public audience through emotional empathy.
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