The cunning king Polidekt of the island of Serif sends the young hero Perseus to get the head of Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze turns people to stone. He is accompanied by the god of commerce and profits and the patron of thieves and athletes, Hermes, who pursues his personal interests. Perseus gets the head of Medusa, but uses it to save Andromeda, the daughter of King Kef.

Vsevolod Larionov
as Hermes (voice)

Anna Kamenkova
as Andromeda (voice)

Yevgeni Gerasimov
as Perseus (voice)

Zinaida Naryshkina
as Youngest of Grays (voice)

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
as Second of Grays (voice)

Sofya Zajkova
as Gorgona Medusa (voice)
SorenHoffmann
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. Th...