A very beautiful animated adaptation of the folktale "The Scarlet Flower", which is basically the Russian equivalent of The Beauty and the Beast, almost 40 years before Disney did their own version of said story.
The animation has aged phenomenally well, with a very elegant use of rotoscoping and gorgeous-looking backgrounds. All the sequences taking place in the enchanted island of the Beast are exquisitely made, being a wonderful pleasure to the eyes.
The plot is very simple, but charming, very close to the usual whimsical nature of old fairytales instead of trying to adjust them a more "logical", conventional narrative like modern Disney does. This adds to its charm in my opinion, and kinda wish other animated adapations of fairytales and legends from the last decades did a similar thing, instead of trying to imitate the Disney/Pixar formula.
The animation has aged phenomenally well, with a very elegant use of rotoscoping and gorgeous-looking backgrounds. All the sequences taking place in the enchanted island of the Beast are exquisitely made, being a wonderful pleasure to the eyes.
The plot is very simple, but charming, very close to the usual whimsical nature of old fairytales instead of trying to adjust them a more "logical", conventional narrative like modern Disney does. This adds to its charm in my opinion, and kinda wish other animated adapations of fairytales and legends from the last decades did a similar thing, instead of trying to imitate the Disney/Pixar formula.