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...picture has defects. The last scene slips feebly out of hand, and one whole long episode at the bottom of the sea is ludicrously out of sort and rhythm with the rest. Anna Larionova is a bit bovine as the heroine, although Serge Stolyarov is a splendidly male and forthright Sadko. On the whole, by going back to Russian moods far older than Eisenstein or Stalin, this picture achieves an almost childlike air, dreamy, simple, and yet full of hints of ancient wisdom...
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