LECTURE "FROM EPIC STORY TO GODZILLA: HOW BOGATYRS BECAME SOVIET SUPERHEROES, AND FAIRY TALES CONQUERED THE WHOLE WORLD"

Fairy tale films appeared almost simultaneously with the birth of cinema, but they have not lost their audience to this day. Compared to the rapidly fading superheroics, Slavic folklore seems to be a bottomless well of epic fantasies. How did Soviet filmmakers elevate the fairy tale to the level of a big movie? How did Alexander Ptushko outsmart the Guinness Book of Records? And, finally, what did Sadko forget in Ancient Greece, how did Ilya Muromets get on the pages of American comics, and how did Dragon Gorynych fight Godzilla? About the adventures of the genre and the changing image of the bogatyr will tell the writer and film critic Egor Shuvalov.