Hercules and Admetus

Name: Hercules and Admetus
Director: Anatoliy Petrov
Genre: Animation
Released: 1986-02-09
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Tsaryov, Aleksandr Voevodin, Aleksandr Belyavskiy

1986

20m

Animation

Director: Anatoliy Petrov

Writer: Anatoliy Petrov

Overview

Admetus, king of Feres, makes an agreement with the Fates to postpone the date of his death, in exchange for someone else taking his place, without knowing that the chosen one will be his beloved wife Alcestis. Desperate, Admetus asks Hercules for help in rescuing Alcestis from death... An animated short film based on the Greek myth of Admetus and Alcestis.