A Very Old Story

A Very Old Story (1968)

TMDb

6.2

04/06/1968 • 1h 30m
original-title

Старая, старая сказка

status

Released

production-companies

Lenfilm

original-language

Russian

budget

-

revenue

-

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.

production-countries

Soviet Union

spoken-languages

Russian

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