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Rusalka The Mermaid - Animation Film

Beautiful Animation film made entirely with oil painting by Aleksandr Petrov in 1997.

After this one he made an adaptation of "The Old Man And The Sea" using the same technique and he won an Academy Award.

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3/18/2007 5:31:10 AM

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flatrabbit : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

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616 days 3 hours ago...

Sad. It reminds me of Maine.

evergrim : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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613 days 14 hours ago...

Beats that Pixar shit.

poortom : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

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612 days ago...

Man that would be a HUGE pain in the ass to do. Talk about patience.

jarcaf : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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612 days ago...

5/5 if only for the amount of effort and time it took to make that. It made for a great visual, but to be honest, i could care less about the storyline.

shortfu : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

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612 days ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusalka
Rusalka

In Slavic mythology, a rusalka (plural:rusalki) was a female ghost, water nymph, succubus or mermaid-like demon that dwelled in a waterway.

According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerise them, then lead the person away to the river floor, to live with them. The stories about rusalki have parallels with the Germanic Nix and the Irish banshee. See Slavic fairies for similar creatures.

LithuanianLabourer : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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611 days 23 hours ago...

nice animation 5/5 .

beigedickies : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

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611 days 22 hours ago...

The storyline was a bit hard for me to follow but I think this is how it goes.

The backstory is told through a series of dreams and flashbacks embededded with the main plot. There's a boy who lives with an old man who is either a monk or his father. The boy sees and becomes enamored with the woman in the lake, not knowing she's a rusalka. In dreams the woman's life prior to becoming a rusalka is revealed.

Before becoming the rusalka, the young woman was romantically involved with someone, probably the old man in his youth. However she discovers his wedding with another woman, and most likely kills herself, thereby becoming the rusalka.

When the old man comes across the rusalka and his son playing together, the rusalka exhibits anger and vanishes.

The old man dreams of receiving a lamb, from the virgin Mary only to find blood on his hands shortly after petting it. The lamb symbolizes his son and realizes that the rusalka plans to take his son away, as revenge.

He hurries to save his son but sees the rusalka playfully toss the son out of the boat and into the deep lake. Before he can do anything a water twister spouts forth consuming everything in its path. The boy regains conscoiusness next to the dead bodies of his father and the rusalka. The body of the rusalka was probably the woman's corpse from when she committed suicide in the lake that was resurfaced by the water twister.

The rusalka is avenged by the death of the old man.

I think that's the plot.

baklavafiend : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

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611 days 21 hours ago...

go motherland ftw.
simply stunning animations, just like the old russian cartoons i watch(ed)

Vlagrate : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

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611 days 19 hours ago...

For anyone who is interested:
The language, depicted culture, artist and original work from which this was adapted are all Russian

afrochapin : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

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611 days 19 hours ago...

I like how she sneered at the old man :D that was great

ninja_guyden : LVL 2: VP 1.1: said:

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611 days 18 hours ago...

nice, but what's the point of the story?

Coyte : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

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611 days 17 hours ago...

Wow, Animation made out from oil paint. Do you have any idea how hard is that. Better than Disney shit or Pokemon 5/5

pcmacro : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

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611 days 13 hours ago...

pretty deep sad stuff.

dabarker : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

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611 days 11 hours ago...

Beautiful animation

HaneGaNai : LVL 16: VP 2.5: said:

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611 days 9 hours ago...

i paint at school, and my art teacher tells me that im verry talented, but after seing this, i notice that im just a newbie. if only i could paint like that :( and damn it must have taken him a couple weeks (about 5 hours a day) of painting

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