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Bananaquit
Since: Jan, 2001
2016-11-23 16:41:08
This sounds like the 1968 Romanian fantasy film Kingdom in the Clouds, a rarity in that it was directed by a woman, Elisabeta Bostan. I've been on the lookout for it as well, but the English dub (released in 1971 by Xerox Films) is quite rare these days. There's a clip of it here
. Look familiar?

Back on television in the 1970's, I saw a movie that was played on some network channel in Chicago (back then, it was ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and WGN). I'm sure I saw it more than once, but I never could remember the name or the actors. Basic premise (I think, 40-45 years of bad memory here): A man goes in search of immortality... kind of. He actually is looking for "Happily ever after," but as a location rather than a state of mind. He finds a town/city where he believes people live eternally and tries to gain citizenship. As a way of seeing if he is worthy, they give him three quests. I remember one is to find a (or the) heart of gold (again, not in a person, but an actual object), another is to find a feather (of truth or some such), and so on. I think I remember a scene where he had to get something from a witch who wouldn't help him, so he played a magic flute that forced her to dance. I also remember that the end was odd, in that the hero won the quests, but there was a way for him to lose his immortality by drinking from a spring... which he did.
I'm not even sure it was in English, so I might have seen a dubbed version of it. I thought the characters looked of European descent. It was not really time specific either, except that there was no machinery or guns, and I seem to recall swords.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.