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

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.

atmosphericmeditativevisually strikingancientoperaticbittersweetepicstylized

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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