Top cast:Talia Ryder,Diane Kruger,Oleg Ivenko
Director:Louis Halberstadt
Genre:Animation
Region:Finland
Year:2001
Storyline:He cries: "Daddy," and jumps up to meet his father Ben Harper (Peter Graves).He stops suddenly when he sees his agitated father climb out of the car, bleeding from a bullet wound in the shoulder.The dangers of a complacent nation (with hunger amidst a land of plenty) being manipulated and taken over by neo-Fascist forces and Hitler's Third Reich (a reality in the early 1940s) are countered in the film by the actions of the ordinary 'little man.The most memorable sequence in the entire film is Renfield's arrival at Castle Dracula.Once the speeding coach arrives at the courtyard of the strange, crumbling castle, he steps off the coach and begins to indignantly protest against the driver:I say driver, what do you mean by going at this -However, he realizes there is only an empty seat - and no driver! The massive wooden and iron castle door mysteriously creaks opens on its own.In effect, Messala asks Ben-Hur to turn traitor on his people, and reveal the names and identity of Jewish underground resistance leaders - referred to as "criminals.