The Wizard’s Apprentice (1984)

Original title

Ученик волшебника

Directed by

Aleksey Solovyov

Genre

animation

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

20 min

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

A boy named Vasya becomes the apprentice of a wizard named Alyosha. Their adventures draw from a Russian fairy tale by Sofia Prokofyeva.

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What happens

«Ученик волшебника» — советский кукольный мультипликационный фильм по мотивам сказки Софьи Прокофьевой о волшебнике Алёше и мальчике Васе Вертушинкине. В 1987 году вышло продолжение — «Волшебные колокольчики». (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.