A Very Old Story
Старая, старая сказка
Release: 1968-12-31
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 6.2
Family
Fantasy
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
Production Companies
Lenfilm
Cast
Vladimir Etush
as King / Innkeeper
Georgiy Vitsin
as good wizard
Viktor Perevalov
as Prince-chimney sweep
Georgiy Shtil
as Eastern Prince
Marina Neyolova
as Princess / innkeeper's daughter
Vera Titova
as witch / davil's grandmother
Anatoly Korolkevich
as doorman
Georgi Georgiu
as "thick"
Lev Lemke
as "thin"
Igor Dmitriev
Boris Lyoskin
Anatoli Abramov
as contender for groom
Oleg Dal
as Soldier / Puppet master
Crew
Yuli Dunsky
Screenplay
Marina Azizyan
Production Design, Costume Design
Igor Vuskovich
Production Design
Hans Christian Andersen
Novel
Valeri Bychenkov
Assistant Director
Nadezhda Kosheverova
Director
Andrey Petrov
Original Music Composer
Aleksandr Galich
Lyricist
Valery Mironov
Assistant Camera
Valeri Frid
Screenplay