The only surviving scene from The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, a satirical animated opera that mixed fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin, music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Russian avant-garde..
Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy
Soviet Union
Is this for you? If you get excited about animation history or Russian avant-garde experiments, you’ll probably find this fascinating. If you need a plot that goes from A to B, or even a film that lasts longer than a commercial break, you’re going to be bored to tears. It’s a curiosity, nothing more. It feels like fin...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy
Ralph Ince
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"Is this for you? If you get excited about animation history or Russian avant-garde experiments, you’ll probably find this fascinating. If you need a plot that goes from A to B, or even a film that lasts longer than a commercial break, you’re going to be bored to tears. It’s a curiosity, nothing more. It feels like finding a single, slightly burnt page from a book you were never meant to read. You get a glimpse of the color palette—this harsh, striking aesthetic that feels like it’s screaming at..."
1920 · IMDb 4.7
Ralph Ince
