Andriesh

Andriesh (1981) is a short animated fairy tale you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Lyubov Apraksina. A young shepherd named Andriesh sets out to free the kind fairy Dona from the grip of a wicked sorcerer.

Ten minutes of hand-drawn Moldavian legend, adapted from the poem by Emilian Bucov. The story is plain and clear the way folk tales are: courage against magic, light against dark. A neat pick when you want to show a child a short story with a tidy moral and not stretch out the evening. Stream Andriesh (1981) online on iFILM.