Fairytale

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Fairytale

2022

1h 18m

Documentary

Animation

Fantasy

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88%

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8 Reviews

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Archival footage portrays conversations in purgatory between Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill.

David Jenkins

Little White Lies

It’s easy to tag anything vaguely psychedelic with the “head trip” label, but this journey into the depths of the political beyond certainly earns it, and then some.

Aug 9, 2022

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Guy Lodge

Variety

It’s a pleasure to see Sokurov back in such mischievous form.

Aug 9, 2022

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

As with most of [Aleksandr Sokurov's] work, it casts a hypnotic spell you can resist and be bored by, or surrender and enjoy a singular, mystical, aesthetically striking experience.

Jan 15, 2025

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

You might wonder if Fairytale might not have worked better as a short. It is, however, what it is, and it is 100% a Sokurov film.

Rated: 3.5/5

Mar 10, 2023

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Carlos Losilla

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

Fairytale is not so much a phantasmagoria as a reality inevitably deformed by wear and tear, an impossible fiction that never fully starts, or that constantly restarts, because it no longer even finds its place in time. [Full review in Spanish]

Nov 9, 2022

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Ayeen Forootan

In Review Online

Fairytale once again invites viewers into [Sokurov's] familiar domain, but with fresher artistic vision and aesthetic innovation than what we’ve seen before.

Aug 17, 2022

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Jack L

This film is unbearable to watch. And I wrote about Sokurov favorably thought my career.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/05/25

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DANILO RICARDO G

FILME INCRÍVEL DE SORUKOV!!!! ASSISTAM!!! NO BRASIL, DISPONÍVEL APENAS NO RESERVA IMOVISION.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/12/24

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Synopsis

Archival footage portrays conversations in purgatory between Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Producer: Nikolay Yankin
Screenwriter: Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Fantasy
Original Language: Russian
Runtime: 1h 18m