A Night on Bald Mountain

Original title: Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve

• Animation
• Fantasy
• Horror

Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?

Director

Claire Parker, Alexandre Alexeieff

Released

1 November 1933

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