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Prince and the Evening Star

1979 · 86 min

A cozy, old-fashioned fairy tale that feels like a storybook come to life, with gentle wonder and a touch of menace.

Overview
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen, who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a visitation and before he knows it, all his sisters are married off and gone away, and himself falls in love with beautiful Večernice. Now he is faced with the King's wraths and charged with a quest. The journey, however, hides obstacles and danger; not only treacherous merchants and robbers, but also a evil wizard Mrakomor...

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • survival
  • morality
Places
  • fantasy world
  • countryside
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour4
Realism2
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
fantasy, family
Directed by
Václav Vorlíček
Written by
Jiří Brdečka
Starring
Vladimír Menšík, Juraj Ďurdiak, Libuše Šafránková, Radoslav Brzobohatý, František Filipovský, Julie Jurištová, Zlata Adamovská, Ivana Andrlová
Music
Svatopluk Havelka
Cinematography
Josef Illík
Runtime
86 min
Country
Czechoslovakia
Languages
Czech

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