The Magical Portrait

Overview

Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 31, 1997

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

China, Russia

Production

Rakurs,Sang I

Cast

Vladimir Antonik,Andrey Martynov,Li Gao,Valentina Telichkina,Natalya Goncharova,Tamara Sidorenko,Ariadna Shengelaia,Irina Bezrukova,Sergey Shnyryov,Anna Markova

Director

Gennadi Vasilyev

Writer

Shi U. Zhang,Gennadi Vasilyev

Producer

Tzjuangchan Jen,Vitaliy Sidorenko

Cinematography

Boris Bondarenko

Music

Dmitri Rybnikov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0137261