Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
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In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
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A beautifully animated, melancholic adventure across the seas. It feels like a lost European comic, full of romantic longing and the shadow of war. A wistful, literary journey about freedom and fate.
adventurouswistfulmelancholicromanticsteadyEuropean comics adaptationperiod piecepainterly animationliteraryfreedomdestinylovewar
