A Very Old Story

A Very Old Story

1968
1h 30m
6.2

6.2/10

20 votes • View on IMDb
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.

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Lenfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title Старая, старая сказка
Release Date December 31, 1968
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0166367

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"

Lev Lemke
Lev Lemke

"thin"

Igor Dmitriev
Igor Dmitriev

Boris Lyoskin
Boris Lyoskin

Key Crew

Nadezhda Kosheverova
Director
Valeri Frid
Screenplay
Yuli Dunsky
Screenplay
Semyon Goloshchyokin
Executive Producer

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