A Very Old Story (1968)
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.
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Oleg Dal as Soldier / Puppet master |
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Marina Neyolova as Princess / innkeeper's daughter |
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Vladimir Etush as King / Innkeeper |
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Georgiy Vitsin as good wizard |
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Vera Titova as witch / davil's grandmother |
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Viktor Perevalov as Prince-chimney sweep |
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Georgiy Shtil as Eastern Prince |
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Anatoly Korolkevich as doorman |
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Georgi Georgiu as "thick" |
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Lev Lemke as "thin" |
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Igor Dmitriev as |
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Boris Lyoskin as |
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Anatoli Abramov as contender for groom |
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Oleg Belov as |
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Tatyana Gorlova as |
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Kirill Gun as |
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Vladimir Karpenko as |
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Vladimir Kostin as |
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Nikolay Kuzmin as |
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Oskar Lind as |
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Vadim Nikitin as |
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Aleksandr Orlov as |
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Leonard Tubelevich as |
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Vasiliy Vasilev as |
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Galina Voronova as |
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Konstantin Zlobin as |
| Directing | Nadezhda Kosheverova | Director |
| Writing | Hans Christian Andersen | Novel |
| Camera | Konstantin Ryzhov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Marina Azizyan | Production Design |
| Art | Igor Vuskovich | Production Design |
| Sound | Andrey Petrov | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Valentina Mironova | Editor |
| Camera | K. Polukhin | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Anna Tubenshlyak | Second Unit Director |
| Crew | Igor Belsky | Choreographer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Galich | Lyricist |
| Sound | Anatoli Badkhen | Conductor |
| Visual Effects | Yevgeniy Demmeni | VFX Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Azizyan | Costume Design |
| Writing | Aleksandr Bessmertniy | Script Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Viktoriya Mogilyanskaya | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Camera | A. Kotov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Valery Mironov | Assistant Camera |
| Art | B. Smirnov | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | Yu. Kalinin | Assistant Production Design |
| Writing | Valeri Frid | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yuli Dunsky | Screenplay |
| Sound | Boris Khutoryansky | Sound Recordist |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Zavyalov | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Senotov | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | E. Vladimirov | Visual Effects Designer |
| Visual Effects | Lev Kholmov | Visual Effects Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksey Gribov | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Stambirskaya | Key Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Nina Zimatskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Lidiya Dukhnitskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Valeri Bychenkov | Assistant Director |
| Production | Semyon Goloshchyokin | Executive Producer |