The Magical Portrait (1997)
Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...
Director: Gennadi Vasilyev
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Sergey Shnyryov as Ivan |
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Li Gao as Xiao Qing |
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Ariadna Shengelaia as Sorceress |
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Valentina Telichkina as Ivan's mother |
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Vladimir Antonik as Knyaz |
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Irina Bezrukova as Malachite Fairy |
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Andrey Martynov as Titus |
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Tamara Sidorenko as Titus's wife |
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Anna Markova as Motya |
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Natalya Goncharova as Innkeeper |
| Production | Tzjuangchan Jen | Producer |
| Directing | Gennadi Vasilyev | Director |
| Production | Vitaliy Sidorenko | Producer |
| Writing | Gennadi Vasilyev | Writer |
| Writing | Shi U. Zhang | Writer |
| Sound | Dmitri Rybnikov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Leonid Veytkov | Sound |
| Editing | Tatyana Malyavina | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Chekulayeva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vera Artyomova-Shavrey | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Olga Kravchenya | Production Design |
| Art | Mikhail Kartashov | Production Design |
| Camera | Boris Bondarenko | Director of Photography |
