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A Very Old Story (1968)

★ 6.2/10 90 min Family, Fantasy Soviet Union Russian
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Description

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.

Top Cast

Oleg Dal
Oleg Dal Soldier / Puppet master
Marina Neyolova
Marina Neyolova Princess / innkeeper's daughter
Vladimir Etush
Vladimir Etush King / Innkeeper
Georgiy Vitsin
Georgiy Vitsin good wizard
Vera Titova
Vera Titova witch / davil's grandmother
Viktor Perevalov
Viktor Perevalov Prince-chimney sweep
Georgiy Shtil
Georgiy Shtil Eastern Prince
Anatoly Korolkevich
Anatoly Korolkevich doorman

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