Legendy staré Prahy

It's hard to say how many versions there actually are, I've seen the 50-minute one on Netflix and I have to go a little against the grain with the opinion that the stories could freelybe less developed, if only they had been longer. As it is, I've seen twelve stories of less than five minutes each, only a few of which I didn't feel like they ended prematurely and managed to tell me something other than that Prague is supposedly haunted. The best stories were probably the ones about Faust's house, about love on the castle stairs, and about the devil's stones; many of the others seemed to lack a punchline or even a followup (for example, at the end of the piece with the astronomical clock, a foreigner might think that there is no astronomical clock anymore, it doesn't work, and who knows if it ever existed and worked). The uncharismatic narrator doesn't help much either. But the animation is simply beautiful and allowed even the weaker bits to have atmosphere. Three and a half stars. (2019.11.07)