A Very Old StoryMovie
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.
About A Very Old Story
A Very Old Story is a 1968 family, fantasy movie directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 30m, production credits from Soviet Union, an original language code of RU.
The credited cast includes Oleg Dal, Marina Neyolova, Vladimir Etush, Georgiy Vitsin. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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