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A Very Old Story

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

  • Georgi Georgiu

    Georgi Georgiu

    "thick"

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.

Rating

6.3 / 10
21 Reviews
1 Popular

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