Perseus

9.0(4)197320m

AnimationFantasyAction

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.

Director

Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

Cast

Vsevolod Larionov

Hermes (voice)

Anna Kamenkova

Andromeda (voice)

Yevgeni Gerasimov

Perseus (voice)

Zinaida Naryshkina

Youngest of Grays (voice)

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova

Second of Grays (voice)

Sofya Zajkova

Gorgona Medusa (voice)

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SorenHoffmann

3d ago

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 init...