When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as a beggar, so he can teach her lessons about humility and compassion.
A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well.
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Based on the stage musical of the same name, this is the tale of a princess who grew up loving fairy tales and finds herself thrust into one where she encounters numerous obstacles, enemies, and allies in his quest to be reunited with her true love.
A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar.
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain.
East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning.
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems.
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King Thrushbeard 1984
Based upon Grimm Brothers fairy tale.
King Thrushbeard - Russian Version - Король Дроздевик
This was made in Slovakia under socialism but is extremely popular in Russia and the Russian version comes almost into the canon of Soviet filmography.
"King Thrushbeard" (Part II)
Part two of "King Thrushbeard" from Harold Bayer's "Motley Tales" as performed in Soundings Studio's One-Act Summer Camp July 2010.
King Thrushbeard
A home Video missing the first half.
"Motley Tales": "King Thrushbeard" (Part I)
Soundings Studio One-Act Musical Summer Camp performance of "King Thrushbeard" from Harold Bayer's "Motley Tales" July 2010.
King Thrushbeard Russian Version Король Дроздевик
This was made in Slovakia under socialism but is extremely popular in Russia and the Russian version comes almost into the canon of Soviet filmography.
Popular movie trailers from 1984
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After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
"Reverse Television" was created in the mid-1980's by video artist Bill Viola. The 30-second portraits were about portraiture and the idea of a person staring at the viewer (as the viewer stares at the TV screen).
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