Post by Etienne_LeLoupChien on Feb 29, 2024 3:44:03 GMT
Back in the 90s I remember watching an short animated film about a red crystal that could have been part of a series. The setting looked like one of those medieval fairy tales.
What I remember the most was that this red crystal (rather a group of red crystals) yielded a great power to whoever held them. I remember that at one point a bearded thin wizard (or maybe just a bad guy) who was the villain was able to seize the crystal and granted him a lot of power and was going mad. I remember that there was a woman who warned of this red crystal's great power. Towards the end of the movie the wizard had the red crystal in one of his hands and was laughing while throwing these rays of power. He had an assistant who was short and stubby and was kind of a comic relief. During this scene he falls on his back laughing and eventually gets turned into some creature while still laughing.
However, for some reason someone (unfortunately I can't remember) like the hero made him drop the red crystal from his hand. The red crystal fell on the floor and shattered into pieces. The wizard man said "No!" as he was trying to catch it but did not succeed. Shortly after he gets withers quickly into a skeleton.
For some reason I thought it had something to do with an old series called "Britannica's Tales from Around the World" but I was unable to find anything resembling that story. It had an animation style from the mid 80s to early 90s.
I have done Google searches on it, but I was unable to find anything close to it.
