
A Very Old Story
62.00%
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June 4, 1968
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Family, Fantasy
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.
Featured Crew
Nadezhda Kosheverova
Director
Hans Christian Andersen
Novel
Yuli Dunsky
Writer
0
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