October 17th, 2015: Tintin & Snowy

[Carruthers]

We also had peculiar short films of Mediaeval fairy tales from Central Europe.
The stories usually revolved around a princess, a castle and a cathedral.
I recall Krakow and Prague being popular locations for the stories.
They were largely incomprehensible, poorly acted and atrociously dubbed.
Apart from the principal roles, most of the cast appeared as odd peasants of dimunitive stature, usually hunch backed and always wearing strange woolly hats.
I think that the stories were screened as part of a Cold War cultural exchange program.
I often wonder what we sent Poland and Czechoslovakia in return.