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A Very Old Story

A Very Old Story

IMDB:

6.2
A Very Old Story

Released

12/31/1968

Duration

1h 30m

Genre

Family, Fantasy

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Oleg Dal, Marina Neyolova, Vladimir Etush

Overview

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

Oleg Dal

Soldier / Puppet master

Oleg Dal

Marina Neyolova

Princess / innkeeper's daughter

Marina Neyolova

Vladimir Etush

King / Innkeeper

Vladimir Etush

Georgiy Vitsin

good wizard

Georgiy Vitsin

Vera Titova

witch / davil's grandmother

Vera Titova

Viktor Perevalov

Prince-chimney sweep

Viktor Perevalov

Georgiy Shtil

Eastern Prince

Georgiy Shtil

Anatoly Korolkevich

doorman

Anatoly Korolkevich

Georgi Georgiu

"thick"

Georgi Georgiu

Lev Lemke

"thin"

Lev Lemke

Igor Dmitriev

Unknown Role

Igor Dmitriev

Boris Lyoskin

Unknown Role

Boris Lyoskin