Emanuele Luzzati

Adapted from the book by Luzzati.

Oscar nominated animated short from 1973. Pulcinella dreams himself into a wild nightmare of a dream that leads us through an abstract world.

Pulcinella is poor and tormented by his wife. But one day a magical fish bites his line and promises to satisfy his every desire if he lets him live. From that moment all the couple's dreams come true. Until due to too much greed...

Prince Ivan, in search of the Firebird, encounters love and a terrible wizard.

A pair of shipwrecked lovers are captured by a Prince who hopes to make the woman his bride.

Animated short film

A king and his hunting party shoot down birds. A magpie escapes the onslaught of arrows and wreaks havoc on the hunting party.

Emanuele Luzzati was a talented artist, director and animator. One of his best known short films was 1978’s The Magic Flute set to the music from Mozart’s two-act opera. As a stage director, Luzzati had mounted a lavish 1963 full-scale production of the opera and fell in love with the music and the story. His animated The Magic Flute, made fifteen years later, was met with glowing reviews and multiple awards. He followed the completion of the film with a children’s picture book that succinctly retells the story. (by Joseph Crisalli)