Ruslan & Ludmila (Standard Edition) Heavy Metal Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's

Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body

With painstaking stop-motion animation-and shifting of the action to 20th century fascist Italy-director Guillermo del Toro delivered a dark and diverting read on the Collodi classic unlike any before

4K restoration from Criterion

Loaded with visual flair juxtaposed with bloody murders

young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red

Ruslan & Ludmila (Standard Edition) Heavy Metal Mitsuha wakes up in Taki'sRUSLAN AND LUDMILA 1972, Mosfilm, 145 min. The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, SAMPO), RUSLAN AND LUDMILA was a glorious and magical summation of his career: a 2 1 2 hour greatest hits package filled with the sweeping lyricism, bejeweled visual F X and mythic storytelling that put him on par with Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava. Based on an epic fairy tale written in 1820 by Alexander Pushkin