Some even call this 3rd century folktale an Eastern version of Romeo and Juliet.

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At the border of life and death, said a folktale, there was a river called the River of Forgetting, and on the bridge an old woman called Mrs.

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In 1990, he wrote the music and lyrics for "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, " a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.

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Under attack, after all, is not the idea of divinity as such but a representation of God deriving from an ancient folktale which exists in Persian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian variants as well as in Hebrew.

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But that's what this film is -- the old Grimm folktale spruced up with state of the art visual effects and maximized battle action, coupled with a more playful, family-friendly approach than filmmakers took in "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" and "Snow White and the Huntsman".

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