Plans get foiled time and again for poor young Flash when his girlfriend is kidnapped by Ming the Merciless, who intends to destroy the earth and make her his new concubine. A baroque world of wedding-cake sky castles, crystal swords, hawk-men and a chap who has just twelve hours to save the world armed only with a lantern jaw and a clean pair of tights. Can he avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo? Can Flash save the Earth? Will Brian Blessed's
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THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES (2007)
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On the eve of her wedding the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by the malevolent Dr Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa so that he can service the doctor's strange musical automatons and little by little he learns of Droz's plan to stage a "diabolical opera". The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes is the breathtakingly beautiful second film from the brothers Quay, a strikingly original fairytale.
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