It's interesting to find out that this movie was made by the Soviet Union right after the Cold War started. I guess as communism was taking over, the movie quality was going down. Anyway, I admit that it's hard for me to really judge this. It's apparently based on Finnish folklore which I'm not familiar with. The dubbing is really bad, but that can't be blamed on the actual people who made it. I still find it to be bad because it makes little sense. It features a witch who kidnaps a girl. When she's saved, she steals the Sun instead.
Yeah, maybe it made more sense in the original fairy tale. It's pretty anti-climatic, especially with how the witch's army is just sung to sleep! The costumes are really gaudy and look too ridiculous. It's a very slow moving film now that I think about it. The story made little sense and even for a film barely over an hour long, it seemed padded. I guess if you're more familiar with the mythology, you might enjoy it, but otherwise, it's bad. *1/2
Yeah, maybe it made more sense in the original fairy tale. It's pretty anti-climatic, especially with how the witch's army is just sung to sleep! The costumes are really gaudy and look too ridiculous. It's a very slow moving film now that I think about it. The story made little sense and even for a film barely over an hour long, it seemed padded. I guess if you're more familiar with the mythology, you might enjoy it, but otherwise, it's bad. *1/2