Otherworld / Y Mabinogi 2003 Welsh/Hungarian/Russian animation EN spoken RU subs

Whilst celebrating Lleu’s 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to “Y Mabinogi.“ The 4 branches of the Y Mabinogi, are 4 pre-christian , even pre=Roman Celtic mythological tales that are somehow Four Branches of the Mabinogi () consits of the tales: Pwyll Prince of Dyfed, Branwen Daughter of Llyr, Manawydan Son of Llyr Math Son of Mathonwy ( ) “ On the surface, the plot of the Mabinogi concerns the births, lives and deaths of the births, lives and deaths of a group of interrelated characters from the mythical horizon of British historiography: the generations before the Roman occupation during the rise of the Sons of Beli Mawr. The origins of these characters and their associated legends are various, as we shall see, but they have been woven together by the medieval author (or the tradition he was working within) into a loose and syncretic panorama of myth, magic and dynastic politics.“ Directed by Derek W Hayes IN 2003 came an end to the Commissioned animation S4C program as initiate by Christopher Grace and the cooperation between Russian animation studios and S4C/BBC4 that had started in 1989 with “The quest of Olwen“. The “Animated tales of the world“ series went, independant of S4C, on for one more year, but after it the lights went out.