The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1934)
- Original title
- Базар
- Directed by
- Mikhail Tsekhanovsky
- Genre
- cinematic fairy tale
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 3 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.
How it feels
This is a Soviet cartoon fairy tale based on a Pushkin poem. It tells the story of a priest who hires a clever workman named Balda. Only a short marketplace scene survives from the original film.
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What happens
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде) is a partially lost Soviet feature length cartoon directed by the husband-and-wife team, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya. It is based on the eponymous fairy-tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. The score was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The only surviving scene (2 1/2 minutes) is called Bazaar (Marketplace). The rest of the film reels were lost in the bombing of the Lenfilm studio during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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