The Sleeping Beauty (1930)

Directed by

Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

The film contrasts traditional ballet with revolutionary ideals, focusing on the struggle to replace old art forms with new proletarian ones. It follows characters caught between preserving artistic heritage and embracing Soviet change.

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What happens

The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa) is a 1930 Soviet drama film directed by Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev, their first feature film. The main themes of the film are the conflict between old art forms such as ballet and the revolution and the need for creating new, proletarian forms of art. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.