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Perseus

Name: Perseus
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Action
Released: 1973-06-01
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 9

★ 9,0 /10 (4 Votes)

1973 RU 20 min

Overview

The cunning king Polidekt of the island of Serif sends the young hero Perseus to get the head of Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze turns people to stone. He is accompanied by the god of commerce and profits and the patron of thieves and athletes, Hermes, who pursues his personal interests. Perseus gets the head of Medusa, but uses it to save Andromeda, the daughter of King Kef.

Release date

01/06/1973

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Popularity

0.6

Genres

Animation Fantasy Action

Status

Released

Original title

Персей

Language

Runtime

20 min

Vsevolod Larionov

Hermes (voice)

Anna Kamenkova

Andromeda (voice)

Yevgeni Gerasimov

Perseus (voice)

Zinaida Naryshkina

Youngest of Grays (voice)

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova

Second of Grays (voice)

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Sofya Zajkova

Gorgona Medusa (voice)

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The 1973 Soviet animated film Perses, directed by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, is not historically accurate to ancient Greek mythology. Instead, it deliberately reshapes the myth into a moral allegory typical of Soviet educational animation, focusing on a conflict between altruism and greed. The De-Divinization of the God: In the Aryan tradition, Hermes is a "Solar" messenger, the God of initiation, and a guide for the hero. The film's depiction of him as a cynical, profit-driven "merchant" who views kindness as a "commodity" would be seen as a Marxist/Semitic caricature. The Attack o…

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