A Very Old Story
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
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"
Genres
Director
Nadezhda Kosheverova
Budget / Revenue
$0.0M / $0.0M
