Perseus

4/30/2026

The 1973 Soviet animated film Perses, directed by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, is not historically accurate to ancient Greek mythology. Instead, it deliberately reshapes the myth into a moral allegory typical of Soviet educational animation, focusing on a conflict between altruism and greed. The De-Divinization of the God: In the Aryan tradition, Hermes is a "Solar" messenger, the God of initiation, and a guide for the hero. The film's depiction of him as a cynical, profit-driven "merchant" who views kindness as a "commodity" would be seen as a Marxist/Semitic caricature. The Attack on the Divine: The Soviet animators "projected" their hatred of capitalism onto a Greek deity to make the "Higher World" look like a den of traders. An Evolian would find this "plebeian materialism" un