Why read Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales?

Book cover of Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey

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Tale of Tales fuses Yuri Norstein's memories of his past and hopes and fears for the future. This book examines the passage of these motifs into the film but it also looks into later influences that affected it.

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1 author picked Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Maya Balakirsky-Katz

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A meditative look at the inner life and social contexts of Norstein’s film Tale of Tales about a little grey wolf who wades through the realities of postwar culture as the eponymous character of a popular national lullaby.

Kitson’s recovery of the material and spiritual biography of a Soviet auteur showed me the way to my own work on the Jewish labor force in Soviet animation.

From Maya's list on The best books on the work of contemplation and physical space.