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Dominican Rep. Tale of Tales
- Original title
- Skazka skazok (Tale of Tales)
- Year
- 1979
- Running time
- 30 min.
- Country
Soviet Union (USSR)- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Animation
- Music
- Cinematography
- Animation, Igor Skidan-Bosin
- Producer
- Genre
- Animation. Drama | Surrealism. Stop Motion. Half-length Film. Fairy Tales / Fables
- Synopsis
- Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror, attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of one thing with another, which means that any attempt to put memory on film cannot be told like a conventional narrative. The film is thus made up of a series of related sequences whose scenes are interspersed between each other. One of the primary themes involves war, with particular emphasis on the enormous losses the Soviet Union suffered on the Eastern Front during World War II. Several recurring characters and their interactions make up a large part of the film, such as the poet, the little girl and the bull, the little boy and the crows, the dancers and the soldiers, and especially the little grey wolf (Russian: syeryenkiy volchok). Another symbol connecting nearly all of these different themes are green apples (which may symbolize life, hope, or potential).
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