The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971)

Original title

Сеча при Керженце

Directed by

Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Yuri Norstein

Genre

war film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 33 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 tells a story of a medieval battle using animated Russian religious art. It follows warriors as they prepare for and fight a conflict set to classical music.

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What happens

The Battle of Kerzhenets (Russian: Сеча при Керженце; tr.: Secha pri Kerzhentse) is a 1971 Soviet animated film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Yuri Norstein. The film is set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov and uses Russian frescoes and paintings from the 14th–16th centuries. These are animated using 2-dimensional stop motion animation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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