Name: Ruslan and Ludmila
Start: 2024-07-30T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-30T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Stray Cat Film Center

Ruslan and Ludmila

Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit  micro-cinema. Organized by volunteer programmers, We screen  everything from to documentaries to video art to cult films and is open to the entire range of moving image expressions – independent, activist, underground and bizarre. We are a space that supports all of KC’s  cinematic communities and celebrates diversity of expression, fun &  radical art.

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An evil wizard! A kidnapped princess! An icy castle! Magic rings, stone warriors, sorcery and sacrifice. Ptushko's final epic has it all!

Dir. Aleksandr Ptushko / 1972 / 145m, Russian w/ English Subtitles.The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, SAMPO), RUSLAN AND LUDMILA was a glorious and magical summation of his career: a 2-1/2 hour greatest hits package filled with the sweeping lyricism, bejeweled visual F/X and mythic storytelling that put him on par with Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava.Based on an epic fairy tale written in 1820 by Alexander Pushkin (Ptushko had previously adapted Pushkin’s THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN, and half-jokingly said they were related), the film opens with the seemingly-joyous marriage of bogatyr (warrior) Ruslan to Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir.On their wedding night, Ludmila is spirited away by the riotously long-bearded wizard Chernomor, and taken to his sinister palace where she’s held prisoner. On their epic quest to rescue her, Ruslan and his three rivals encounter some of Ptushko’s most unforgettable imagery: a giant’s monstrous, decapitated head slumbering on an open plain, magic rings and stone warriors, sorcery and sacrifice, all in the hope of reuniting lost lovers.

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