The story of the titan Prometheus, who stole fire from Olympus for people and was severely punished for this by Zeus: Prometheus' friend the blacksmith Hephaestus was forced to chained him to the rock, and every day the eagle that flew from Olympus pecked the recovering liver of Prometheus. But the agony of Prometheus was not in vain - people preserved his sacred gift.
Sound
The eagle's shriek will haunt your dreams. Soviet audio design hits different.
Director
Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Brezhnev's stagnation, Prometheus's defiance reads as thinly veiled Soviet dissident allegory.
Snezhko-Blotskaya spent months painting each liver-regeneration sequence frame by frame; no shortcuts, no computers, just suffering.
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