A shepherd dies, visits hell, and still has time to romance a girl made of flowers. Hungarian folklore hits different.
A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death.
Direction
Jankovics' morphing visuals that reject Disney physics entirely.
Score
Petróczy's operatic death-march that never lets you breathe.
Director
Marcell Jankovics
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Sándor Petőfi's 1845 epic poem, the film preserves a form of Hungarian oral storytelling that Soviet censorship nearly erased.
Jankovics animated solo for months after his team abandoned the project's impossible demands; the 'wobbly' line quality is literally one man's exhausted hand.
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