THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN

One of famed fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko’s most sublime creations, in a style blending Disney, Harryhausen and Mario Bava. Based on a fairy tale in rhymed verse by Alexander Pushkin, TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is a ravishingly beautiful storybook meditation on love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Like his earlier masterpieces SAMPO and ILYA MUROMETS, TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery: carved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the snow; the treacherous faces of conspirators bathed in red candle glow like the witches in Macbeth.