Bartok the Magnificent (1999) on Netflix
Bartok, an albino bat magician, performs in Moscow and receives a ring from tsar Ivan Romanov. When Ivan is apparently taken by Baba Yaga, two children nominate Bartok to rescue him.
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Plot summary
In Moscow, an albino bat named Bartok earns his living as a magician and a con artist. His act ends with a fight against a savage bear, which he stuns with dust and traps in a wagon. Young tsar Ivan Romanov is delighted and gives Bartok a royal ring; the tsar's advisor Ludmilla is not impressed. The bear is Zozi, a Shakespeare-loving bear and Bartok's business partner, who tells him to give the ring back because it belongs to royalty. Bartok refuses. Then Ivan is apparently kidnapped by the witch Baba Yaga, and two children name Bartok as the one to rescue him. He agrees, and he and Zozi set off for the Iron Forest, where a giant talking skull guards Baba Yaga's hut and poses riddles to visitors.
Cast
- Kelly Marie Bergeras Little Girl (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bartok the Magnificent (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In late 1999, the pancake chain IHOP sold two six-inch Bartok toys, a Bartok Puppet and Turban Bartok, for $2.99 with any food purchase, planning to sell about 500,000 of them.
- Chris Meledandri, then president of 20th Century Fox Animation, said the film was devised because audiences loved the impish Bartok in Fox's 1997 animated musical Anastasia.
