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THE BATS OF KERZHENETS

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Watch THE BATS OF KERZHENETS on YouTube

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Video editing: 

Montag

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Music:

Emalkay - Bats In The Belfry

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Movie:

The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971) - Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano e Yuri Norstein​

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Bats in the belfry is an idiom that means someone is acting eccentric or mentally unsound, a metaphor for disordered thinking, and refers to the way bats would fly around the upper stories of churches in distress. 

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The Battle of Kerzhenets is the impressive 1971 animated short movie directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Yuri Norstein, showing a battle between Russian soldiers being attacked and literally swept away by Mongol hordes, based on the legendary Invisible City of Kitezh tale, which disappeared into the waters of a lake to escape the invaders.

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Bats In The Belfry by Emalkay is also another legendary song that also swept the dance floors and radio programs during the second generation of Dubstep in 2006, and I perfectly remember when it dropped in the basement of the beloved Festa Tranquera on Rua Augusta in São Paulo, everybody went like bats in the belfry and no one survived.

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Speaking of sweeping, I don't know if bats appeared on the Battle of Kerzhenets and even less so on Dubstep dance floors, but I've faced several of them armed with a broom more than once in my life, and all the battles were epic, so I took advantage of the obligatory pun and named it The Bats of Kerzhenets.

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There is no copyright infringement intended, the material used in this is purely for entertainment purposes, and it will be removed by request.

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