A Very Old Story

A Very Old Story (1968)

FamilyFantasy

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.

Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova
Writers: Valeri Frid, Yuli Dunsky.

Casts

	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"
	Igor Dmitriev as
	Boris Lyoskin as
	Anatoli Abramov as contender for groom
	Oleg Belov as
	Tatyana Gorlova as
	Kirill Gun as
	Vladimir Karpenko as
	Vladimir Kostin as
	Nikolay Kuzmin as
	Oskar Lind as
	Vadim Nikitin as
	Aleksandr Orlov as
	Leonard Tubelevich as
	Vasiliy Vasilev as
	Galina Voronova as
	Konstantin Zlobin as

Crew