Princess and dragon hero is envisioned as slaying dragons even though, for instance, the Brothers Grimm had only a few tales of dragon and giant slayers among hundreds of tales. One of the earliest example of the motif comes from the Ancient Greek tale of Perseus, who rescued the princess Andromeda from Cetus, a sea monster often described as resembling a serpent or dragon. This was taken up into other Greek myths, such as Heracles, who rescued the princess Hesione of Troy from a similar sea monster. Most ancient versions depicted the dragon as the expression of a god's wrath: in Andromeda's case,
The Andromeda Nebula The Andromeda Nebula The Andromeda Nebula () is a 1967 Soviet Science fiction film starring Sergei Stolyarov and directed by Yevgeni Sherstobitov at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. The film was originally intended to be the first episode of a series of films, alternatively titled as "The Andromeda Nebula: Episode I. Prisoners of the Iron Star", but the remaining parts were never made due to Stolyarov's death. It is based upon the "Andromeda Nebula" novel by Ivan Yefremov and follows the story of a group of humans on the spaceship "Tantra" who are tasked with investigating the home planet of an