A Very Old Story (1968)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1968-12-31
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova
Top Cast
- Oleg Dal as Soldier / Puppet master
- Marina Neyolova as Princess / innkeeper's daughter
- Vladimir Etush as King / Innkeeper
- Georgiy Vitsin as good wizard
- Vera Titova as witch / davil's grandmother
- Viktor Perevalov as Prince-chimney sweep
- Georgiy Shtil as Eastern Prince
- Anatoly Korolkevich as doorman
- Georgi Georgiu as "thick"
- Lev Lemke as "thin"
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