The Stone Flower (1946)
This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in handling rare precious stones found in the Ural Mountains. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a fairy who ordered for herself an unusual stone flower.
Director:
Aleksandr Ptushko
Writers:
Pavel Bazhov, Iosif Keller.
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Vladimir Druzhnikov as Danilo |
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Yekaterina Derevshchikova as Katya |
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Tamara Makarova as Khozyayka Medhoy Gori |
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Mikhail Troyanovsky as Prokopych |
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Mikhail Yanshin as Severyan |
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Aleksandr Kleberer as Grandfather Slyshko |
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Serafim Zaytsev as Yefimka |
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Lidiya Deikun as Vikoriha |
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Nikolai Orlov as Old master |
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Stepan Kayukov as Merchant (uncredited) |
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Arkadi Tsinman as Merchant (uncredited) |
| Directing | Aleksandr Ptushko | Director |
| Writing | Pavel Bazhov | Novel |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Kruchinina | Costume Design |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts | Music |
| Camera | Fyodor Provorov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Emanuel Formánek | Sound |
| Camera | Rudolf Stahl | Assistant Camera |
| Writing | Pavel Bazhov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Iosif Keller | Screenplay |
| Art | Mikhail Bogdanov | Production Design |
| Art | Gennady Myasnikov | Production Design |
| Directing | A. Slobodnik | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Karel Beran | First Assistant Director |
| Editing | Maria Kuzmina | Editor |
| Sound | Boris Volsky | Sound Director |
| Art | Chrudoš Uher | Set Designer |
| Production | Gleb Kuznetsov | Executive Producer |
