A Very Old Story

The 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.

Cast

O Oleg DalSoldier / Puppet master M Marina NeyolovaPrincess / innkeeper's daughter V Vladimir EtushKing / Innkeeper G Georgiy Vitsingood wizard V Vera Titovawitch / davil's grandmother V Viktor PerevalovPrince-chimney sweep G Georgiy ShtilEastern Prince A Anatoly Korolkevichdoorman G Georgi Georgiu"thick" L Lev Lemke"thin" I Igor Dmitriev B Boris Lyoskin

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A Anatoli Abramovcontender for groom O Oleg Belov T Tatyana Gorlova K Kirill Gun V Vladimir Karpenko V Vladimir Kostin N Nikolay Kuzmin O Oskar Lind V Vadim Nikitin A Aleksandr Orlov L Leonard Tubelevich V Vasiliy Vasilev G Galina Voronova K Konstantin Zlobin