A Very Old Story
19681h 30mNo ratings yet
- Fantasy
- Family
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 31, 1968
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm
- Cast
- Oleg Dal,Marina Neyolova,Vladimir Etush,Georgiy Vitsin,Vera Titova,Viktor Perevalov,Georgiy Shtil,Anatoly Korolkevich,Georgi Georgiu,Lev Lemkeand 16 more
- Director
- Nadezhda Kosheverova
- Producer
- Semyon Goloshchyokin
- Cinematography
- Konstantin Ryzhov
- Music
- Andrey Petrov
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0166367