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The Amber Castle

1959 · 21 min

A solemn, painterly folk tale that unfolds like a myth, lovely and sorrowful, with a quiet grandeur that lingers.

Overview
In the film an ancient Lithuanian legend is told about an origin of amber. For the sake of love to fisherman Kastytis sea tsarevna Jurate offered herself up. Her fiance, terrible god Perkunas destroyed the amber castle where she lived and it scattered into a thousand slices.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • fate
  • betrayal
  • power
  • death
Places
  • sea
  • fantasy world
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism1
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
animation
Directed by
Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Written by
Regina Yanushkevich
Starring
Aleksey Konsovskiy, Margarita Kupriyanova, Vladimir Yershov, Irina Gosheva, Tatyana Strukova, Galina Ivanova
Music
Julius Juzelūnas
Cinematography
Ekaterina Rizo
Runtime
21 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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