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15 December 2016
Russo-Finnish Folktale from 1964!
This extremely rare oddity is so bad, it's wonderful. Deservingly, it once got the full MST3K lampoon treatment-- and it will certainly inspire you and your friends to riff on it even more-- but there is also some genuine mystery and charm in this strange story. The folktale origins of fairy tales are always darker and weirder than their Disney retellings, and Russian fairy tales are the weirdest and darkest of all. This super-weird, Kruschev era, Cold War treatment strives to be cute and lovely, but straddles comedy and horror better. It's zany, and nearly incomprehensible-- but somehow irresistible. The only non-MST3K print I could find is this DVD transfer from VHS, so the quality is very Sovietsky-- but still totally worth it!