Tale Of Tales Part I

[RemorfChuket]

genius

[Leetatron2]

Beautiful, but so dark.

[arielnaif]

Capolavoro.

[RhubarbVodka]

Absolutely beautiful. I looked for this on DVD but, sadly, it doesn't seem to be available in the UK.

[Ccs1989]

I can see why Bill Plympton isn't a huge fan of this film.

[AthenaAndMau]

Thank you so much for this!!! I love Yuri Norstein's animations!

[Yetizrach]

Composition from 5:52 is "To Ostatnia Niedziela" (This is the Last Sunday) by Jerzy Petersburski, there were several versions with words in different langs (polish/russian).

[ccipollini1984]

THIS is animation.

[SixtySky987]

wow creepy...

O.O

[Alika20071]

Изумительный...

Очаровательный...

[laahaalaahaa]

If this is only the second-best film of all time, what's the best?

[Kyuutai]

@laahaalaahaa I looked it up on the internet, and discovered that the first place belongs to an animation film which I guessed would be #1. :D That is Hedgehog in the Fog by the same animator, Yuri Norstein.

[FukingHero]

what is the name of the some at 6:20?

[southpolesmileyface1]

@FukingHero its called "Tired Sun" :)

[DragonZeara]

That little wolf is so cute!

[TFUII]

Thank you

[TFUII]

Truly hard and perfectly wonderful work of Yuri Norstein.This "noisy-drawing" style and some kind of layers!..And what a nice scene with baken-on-the-coals potato!!Very atmospherical and fascinating TALE.Because it really is.If to compare with today animations,we can see,that there is nothing."Tale of Tales" is actually а narrative,when you can imagine everything you want,like reading tale with some illustrations.Perfect animated film.It's not a vain that this is a one of the best films ever!

[1234567890yea]

Not the second greatest film of all time in my opinion... Still, some nice cinematography in parts.

[glenndavid2412]

music at the end ?

[jur4ik269]

@glenndavid2412 the song is called Утомленное солнце, there are many versions on youtube, actually it is remade polish tango. Type Polish tango in Soviet Russia - Utomlennoe solntse in youtube, youll see.

[riceball64]

The animation just draws you in.

[ierofant1000]

Всех времён и народов...

[Oscar301]

to pack so much richness into 7 minutes without even the use of dialogue is pretty special

[norstudio]

Norstein books in English and Russian are available at Norstein Collection at Amazon

[zirconi100]

ICON

[PANTAGRUEL223]

La mayor animación de todos los tiempos, sin duda alguna.

Omar Krishna

[BenDavidsen]

This is some real masterpice.

[suddenh]

This film won the following awards: * 1980—Lille (France) International Festival: Jury Grand Prize * 1980—Ottawa (Canada) International Festival: Best Film * 1980 - Zagreb Festival: Grand Prize  * 1984—Los Angeles Festival: voted by large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time * 2002—Zagreb Festival: again voted to be the greatest animated film of all time

[RemovdSande11]

this video didnt grap me at all, it is visually stunning. But besides that? how can somebody call this the second best film of all time?

[suddenh]

@RemovdSande11

Visit your doctor to check up that you don't suffer from ADHD, like most of your generation.

[RemovdSande11]

@suddenh

I actually suffer from bipolair/add/autism. Which in any sense doesn't cloud my vision on art. The contrary

[syzygywell]

Thanks to the Presets using parts of this in their video The Girl and The Sea many more have now been introduced to this wonderful piece of work.

[MsRagazzino]

спасибо

[Cocksfoot]

трогательно и очень грустно

[mizofan]

still the greatest animated film

[Checonilla]

Very beautiful music! And brilliant work of Yuri Norstein, of course. He did very strong and atmospheric film.

[MarKlim1256]

I'm Russian, and I'm so happy that people from all over the world can see this piece of art... and understand it...love it...

[BeardedClamMeister]

Jews rule

[MrChempioni]

@BeardedClamMeister

with Russian soul!

[YouKnowWhatTheySay18]

The music video for 'Girl and the Sea' by Australian electronic band The Presets is loosely based on this, and is well worth a watch.

[georgetunnah]

Russian creativity and excellence, I love this! a real bit of inspiration

[luisronaldofigo]

thank god is on youtube :D

[SuperHeroMania]

this is the third time i watched the whole thing, i still don't know what the grey wolf's story means

[Ann0ynimouse]

@SuperHeroMania there's probably no hard rational storyline. You can hardly KNOW that, you can only FEEL it.

This film makes heavy references to Russia/USSR history and culture, starting about XVIII orXIX century, then jumping to ~1980x (cars) and then back to WW2 and Civil War of 1920. It heavily stresses how society dramatically changes, both due to science advances and political disasters.

[Ann0ynimouse]

@SuperHeroMania Grey Wolfie is a frightening foe person from folk lullaby, sounding like "Sleep calm, dear baby, or Grey Wolfiew would come out the forest and drag you away"

But given the society disasters, the Wolfie founds himself the only beeing, capabe of caring for baby - the task he never been "dreamed" for. He can't just heartlessly drop the child, yet he does not know how to care for him. He is the scaring foe, it is now his role to care and keep. But no one else left. And lone baby.

[ookaninam2013]

hey, I'm American and I own the DVD!

[neowitz]

loool

[SmallSchool]

！！

[MonochromeGuy]

1984—Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival: voted by large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time

[jkar64]

They obviously hadn't seen Transformers the movie yet. haha

[acidsyringe69]

this is really weird but very very interesting and inspirational to watch.

[YettiYogiBear]

This is animated very much like the old South Park episodes where they used construction paper for each layer of the setting and characters, except that Norstein uses glass panes. He likes to make animated art as opposed to making conventional film features. Believe me, it takes patience and a high tolerance to stay awake to this stuff.

[MrPpopik]

мазер факер, американский засранец

[MrPpopik]

Animatedeadboy

сам ты шит

this is russian soviet soul and culture. listen britney spears. this is not for america

[erdavis7]

@MrPpopik I agree with you. Most Americans wouldn't understand this art. But there are some that would. There are good people in all parts of the world.

[Shachah223]

@erdavis7

I'm American, and I love this art!!!!!!!!!!  Russians always do they best! My favorite, though, out of Russian animation, is Rusalochka(1968).

[Archigearour]

@Shachah223 Thanks for the recommendation! I checked out Rusalochka, absolutely blown away!

[Shachah223]

@Archigearour

You're welcome!

I know, right? It is the closest film I've seen to the actual story, and it's free of any mind-control antics like that of those in nearly all Disney films. I love the rusalka's hair and voices. I think Rusalochka is one of the most beautiful characters Russia's ever created. When Russia wants to, they do their very best!!!

[Animatedeadboy]

@MrPpopik

lol, im not an american, comrade.

[aradriel1]

Amazing!

[upf10]

Amazing work of Yuri Norstein.

Animatedeadboy.

You're very stuped man/women.

[Bravedigger666]

Should I be digging deep to find some profound meaning in this, or is that a futile endeavor?

Either way, this is... very thought-provoking. I feel inspired. Stirred. Moved. Amazing how a series of seemingly random images can make me feel so motivated to create and so proud to be human.

Fantastic.

[poob4633]

is that english subtitle???

[gorillazhead]

Voted one of the best animations of all time.

[crpederson]

This is definitely one of the most creative animations ever. Sort of reminds me of Tarkovsky. if he ever did a cartoon...

[MattiasRobo]

There's so much more to this than meets the eye...

It's incredibly beautiful, if a bit hard to quite grasp at first.

[spikeman316]

Qué tipo de técnica utilizan, es genial, nunca habia visto nunca antes nada así./

What kind of technique of animation is that?

I´ve never seen nothing like this. Is amazing!

[Nekronn]

only 37 000 views...and the world is so large....what a shame..and that retard joe lajoie has millions of views...the world is upsdie down!

[Margiempar]

@Nekronn

Now they´re the double: singularity! xD

[SixxBeer]

@Nekronn Honey isn't for pigs :)

[Nachtmahr]

@Nekronn

just because he doesn't produce rich pictures, he isn't a retard. don't be a snob.

[TheSilentAstronaut]

@Nekronn haha, its so interesting to see old comments. who the fuck is Joe Lajoie? i bet all the J B comments are going to be oblivious to the next generation of youtubers.

[xContaminatedx]

Pretentiuos.

[anmartine]

This animation film I can see it over and over again! So rich in humanly experience!!!

[jovossuck123]

haha so many interlectual potty mouth goin gon in here

i just thought this fucking rocked!! really had fun watching it

[hardrockhouse]

This is so boring!!!

[Messier44]

That scene where the little wolf is rocking back and forth and the sewing machine always makes me teary-eyed. I used to do that when I was very little on my grandmother's old sewing machine.

[Fawksian21]

Hand-drawn animation truly is a lost art. The images in this film are simply gorgeous beyond compare.

I hope Norstein can finish "The Overcoat" soon.

[eLliototo]

just beautiful.

[koldobarroso]

This is fantastic! It should be more acknowledged!

[narozzz]

No matter what anyone thinks of this, it's a shame this kind of stuff was so influential, because it coincided with the downfall of craft within commercially-geared cartoons. Good or bad, this style of animation was just interesting and striking enough to feel like the afterproduct of a neccesary wiping of the slate. But the truth is that people SHOULD miss conventionally entertaining cartoons, because there are maybe five left in 2009. Seen a music video lately? this is that look's genesis.

[JEMdev]

Convetional entertainment panders to basic human instinct.

This isn't entertainment its art.

If you want basal human entertainment, go watch boxing.

[narozzz]

So...art is defined by the absence of humanity.

Way to say "up is down". My world is shattered. Yawn.

[JEMdev]

I consider humanity to be Terrible.

I consider myself in the same vein to be a misanthrope.

Humanity in the conventional sense implies that people are better morally and intelligently speaking, than animals.

Put In truth, humans are animals, who just like animals exist only to spread their seed to the reaches of the earth.

In this sense humanity is very low brow, and animalistic.

All and all, I personally don't consider humanity to carry a positive connotation.

[narozzz]

So can I assume that you have found a wild boar with whom you can debate your views on art?

[narozzz]

Basically, your whole system of belief negates the possibility for art to exist. This film was made by a human. It could not have been made by an animal. But if humans are the same as animals, than animals are no better than humans, which means that everyone and everything is "lowbrow". Does lowbrow exist in a universe without highbrow? Who or what in the universe is responsible for art and who or what does it represent?

[JEMdev]

I'll elaborate,

I made sweeping generalizations in my statement, that upon reading I see misrepresent my opinions.

I consider myself a misanthrope, because in current American culture, the masses are animalistic, greedy, and petty.

If you define humanity ideally, you'll notice you limit most people from fitting into it.

I define humanity, on the ideals of the average human.

The one's who enjoy animalistic pleasures, and find entertainment in Family Guy, and Micheal Bay films.

[narozzz]

Or are you just a surly kid who has nothing to say besides a bunch of belligerent, contrarian faux-intellectual nonsense that just wastes everyone's time?

Prove me wrong.

[JEMdev]

I love you're use of troll logic on the end there.

You won't see me claim to be an intellectual anyway.

To be honest, I'm just another drunk.

Although, it doesn't help that most people are complete idiots nowadays.

Anyway, I have no will to argue with you if you wish to take that route, I was looking for a decent conversation.

[narozzz]

Sorry, I can find nothing in your initial comment to indicate that you wanted a "decent" conversation. You were trying to rile me up, and it only worked because I recognize your tactics from my pissed-off grade nine art classmates and I relish the chance to play havoc with their logic, just to see if they have any desire at all to discuss things on compatible terms. In other words, you're the fun kind of jerk.

BTW nice punctuation - I can't wait to tell my friends that I am use of troll logic.

[SoylentGreeeen]

What makes you think that entertainment and art are exclusive?

[Anthrowolphie]

way to waste my time. that was gay.

[ele90]

the best film ever made

[taparakan]

it's just wonderful

[Toracube]

I have seen this about 15 times and it still moves me.  Amazing. Thanks for posting it.

[Ventilator313]

Wow, this is Bach? He plays it so Romantically.

Beautiful Animation. :)

[devondragon01]

i really didn't expect to find this on Youtube, and it's hard to get on dvd right now, at least in the uk, so a big THANKYOU!!

[mushymcsquishy]

i love the music!!-especially 'a tired sun'..

thank you!

[stalepie75000]

Is it legal to have uploaded this here?

[zqfd]

what is the song at the end ?

[denalihedgehog]

"Утомленное солнце" (Tired Sun) A popular song of the time of WW2.

[Archigearour]

I think it's pretty sad that such a beautiful art style is being shouldered out of the pack by new media, 3d animation, and such. It would be horribly tragic if this sort of mastery was lost forever, because every method of animation has something about it that is impossible to truly emulate in another form.

[DmitriyUA]

what is the precise name of the piece that starts when we see the bull for the first time?A bach prelude, but wich one?

[nihilanonym]

BWV 853 from the 'Well Tempered Clavier'

[DmitriyUA]

thanks

[Chickengirl005]

i remember seeing this ages ago when i was a kid in this summer animation camp i took.

it truly is beautiful..and the fact that most of it is cut-out animation is amazing...its sad to think that most mainstream animation today is either 3D or all done on the computer..yeah that stuff isn't bad but i personally think the traditional way of animating makes a much more beautiful piece of work..

[catekit]

my absolutely fave piece of animation of all times. gets me all teary every time no matter what! but on a separate note - the best version of Bach's prelude in Eb (WTC)EVER!!! i was just hoping that somehow..miraculously there's an expert out there, who'd know which particular version it is and where one could get a very strong hold of it...

[aisrmc]

I was very touched by your words, so I thought I'd drop you a line. The pianist is the Russian Sviatoslav Richter, whom many people consider the most powerful communicator at the instrument in the 20th century. Congratulations on your most refined musical instincts!

[catekit]

Aw! Well that's nice to know..And thank you for the info that I honestly didn't expect to get this easily!Yay!Now off to find the said track. It's gotta be somewhere out there available for download..x

[Archigearour]

I don't really understand the role of the bull. Is it some sort of metaphorical boyfriend?

[clairevatant]

no, I don't think you must see it as a "boyfriend". it's a poetic figure which refers to Chagall, a great influence for Norstein. it shows a contrast between strength and melancholy I'd say...

[Archigearour]

I see. Thanks for the info, I'm not familiar on Russian poetry and literature so forgive the ignorance.

[luxorient]

Chagall was a great painter. And most of his life he lived in France, though was born in Vitebsk (Belorussia).

[clairevatant]

I love the fact that this masterpiece can be seen by everybody on youtube, because Yuri Norstein deserves to be best known... but if you really like it, you absolutely have to take it on DVD, in order to enjoy it in better full screen quality... we must support this great artist, who can't manage to finish his new film because of a lack of money/place to work... I can't wait to see "The Overcoat" when it will be achieved !

[Shhhhhtttt]

very weak!

[clairevatant]

what do you mean ?

[munkyz234]

I love the way this looks! where can you get6 the dvd? do you know the name of his style of art?

[psycocommy]

Which is a very strong "when" vs "if"...

[zujeka]

Brilliant. Stunning! An obvious work of genius.

[gooshh08]

what is this?

[Archigearour]

The most brilliantly animated film of all time. (arguably)

[rwcrux]

anyone know who the song is by please

[upo4ka]

If you're asking about the motive song -it's an ancient Russian folk song that we sing to put our babies to sleep :-)

"Bau-baushki-bau, Don't sleep on the edge (of the bed)

Or the grey little WOLF will come and grab you by your side.

He will grab you by your side and take you into the forest under the (some sort of?)bush".

[nihilanonym]

The second piece is from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier - Prelude 8, BWV853a.

[crpederson]

this is the most touching movie*gosh* inspiring

[Fairyhairy]

All the best to you my friend, your work deserves congratulations! Not only the technique is amazing (It is impossible to say how you might have make it) but also the poetry inside the image of it is very touching. Thank for sharing it .

[pavlovich74]

I love the fact that Norstein is on youtube for all to see. Thank you!!

[godiscopyright]

Thanks for this one, Norstein should be better appreciated, keep 'em coming.