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A Very Old Story

06/04/1968

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1hr 30min

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Family

,Fantasy

STORY

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Oleg Dal
  • Marina Neyolova
  • Vladimir Etush
  • Georgiy Vitsin
  • Vera Titova

    Directors

  • Nadezhda Kosheverova
  • A. Tubenshlyak
  • Nina Zimatskaya
  • Lidiya Dukhnitskaya
  • Valeri Bychenkov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Lenfilm

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian

Cast

Oleg Dal

Soldier / Puppet master

Marina Neyolova

Princess / innkeeper's daughter

Vladimir Etush

King / Innkeeper

Georgiy Vitsin

good wizard

Vera Titova

witch / davil's grandmother

Viktor Perevalov

Prince-chimney sweep

Georgiy Shtil

Eastern Prince

Anatoly Korolkevich

doorman

Georgi Georgiu

"thick"

Lev Lemke

"thin"

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