Movies: Epic poem
- 1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
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Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong ...
- 2010
Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey (2010)
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Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the g...
- 2021
The Mystery of the Trojan Horse (2021)
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The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years of bloody war, the Greek coalition decides to lift the siege and depart, but not before leaving at the gates a huge wooden horse, which the Trojans co...
- 1995
The Universe of the Manas (1995)
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It has been a lifelong dream of Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev to create an elaborate film version of the Kyrgyz national epic 'Manas'. He spent years working with the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan to gather material for this film projec...
- 2018
Sohrab and Rustum (2018)
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An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem....
- 2022
Areyouwinningson? (2022)
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A short film that transforms the chat-room of a porn-forum into a techno-feudal court....