Release, runtime and language

1986 · 20 mins · Russian

Directed by

Anatoliy Petrov

Starring

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Anna Kamenkova, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Oleg Mokshantsev, Pyotr Vishnyakov

Admetus, king of Feres, bargains with the Fates to delay his death by offering a substitute. Unaware that his chosen substitute is his beloved wife Alcestis, he is devastated when she is taken. In desperation he asks Hercules to rescue Alcestis from the underworld. The film is an animated short that retells the Greek myth of Admetus and Alcestis.