Tale of Tales (1979)

Original title

Сказка сказок

Directed by

Yuri Norstein

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

28 min

Rated

U

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 147 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

This animated film weaves together fragments of memory and everyday life in post-war Soviet Russia. It follows a small gray wolf cub as a recurring figure through shifting scenes of childhood, war, and lost love.

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What happens

Tale of Tales (Russian: Сказка сказок, Skazka skazok) is a 1979 Soviet/Russian animated film directed by Yuri Norstein and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. Having won numerous awards, acclaimed by both critics and animators, various polls have recognized it as the greatest animated film of all time. The film was analyzed in the 2005 book Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey by Clare Kitson. (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.