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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.

1968 |1h 30m |  Family, Fantasy

Cast

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Oleg Dal

Soldier / Puppet master

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Marina Neyolova

Princess / innkeeper's daughter

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Vladimir Etush

King / Innkeeper

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Georgiy Vitsin

good wizard

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Vera Titova

witch / davil's grandmother

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Viktor Perevalov

Prince-chimney sweep

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Georgiy Shtil

Eastern Prince

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Anatoly Korolkevich

doorman

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Georgi Georgiu

"thick"

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Lev Lemke

"thin"

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Igor Dmitriev

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Boris Lyoskin

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Anatoli Abramov

contender for groom

More Details

Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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