{"product_id":"814456027067","title":"Tale of Tsar Saltan (Blu-ray)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF\n\u003cbr\u003eTSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko’s most sublime creations: a\n\u003cbr\u003eravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family.\n\u003cbr\u003eDriven from the Russian court by her sisters’ scheming, the young Tsarina (Larisa\n\u003cbr\u003eGolubkina) is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-\n\u003cbr\u003etossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son (Oleg Vidov) land on a\n\u003cbr\u003eremote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form (Kseniya\n\u003cbr\u003eRyabinkina), and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan (Vladimir\n\u003cbr\u003eAndreyev). Like his earlier masterpieces SAMPO and ILYA MUROMETS (also\n\u003cbr\u003ereleased by Deaf Crocodile), TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery:\n\u003cbr\u003ecarved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the\n\u003cbr\u003esnow; the treacherous faces of conspirators bathed in red candle glow like the\n\u003cbr\u003ewitches in Macbeth. Ptushko’s second-to-last feature, TSAR SALTAN has been\n\u003cbr\u003egorgeously restored by Mosfilm and Deaf Crocodile for its first-ever release\n\u003cbr\u003ein the U.S., co-presented with Seagull Films.New hour-long video interview with legendary visual effects artist and film historian Robert Skotak (Academy Award-winner, Best Visual Effects for ALIENS and TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY) on Aleksandr Ptushko and the history of Soviet fantastika filmmaking, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile Films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew commentary track by comics artist (Swamp Thing), film historian, and author Stephen R. Bissette. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew essay by film historian and professor Peter Rollberg (Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew art by Tony Stella\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinema 1 Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894494326863,"sku":"814456027067","price":25.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/2787\/5407\/files\/814456027067_ba112044-20ae-439e-a64f-b1121dae8d32.jpg?v=1773843625","url":"https:\/\/cinema1.ca\/products\/814456027067","provider":"Cinema 1 Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}