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.
Cast
Oleg Dal
Soldier / Puppet master
Marina Neyolova
Princess / innkeeper's daughter
Vladimir Etush
King / Innkeeper
Georgiy Vitsin
good wizard
Vera Titova
witch / davil's grandmother
Viktor Perevalov
Prince-chimney sweep
Georgiy Shtil
Eastern Prince
Anatoly Korolkevich
doorman
Georgi Georgiu
"thick"
Lev Lemke
"thin"
Igor Dmitriev
Unknown
Boris Lyoskin
Unknown
Anatoli Abramov
contender for groom
Crew
Nadezhda Kosheverova
Director
Aleksandr Bessmertniy
Script Editor
Valeri Frid
Screenplay
Yuli Dunsky
Screenplay
Hans Christian Andersen
Novel
Valentina Mironova
Editor
Konstantin Ryzhov
Director of Photography
Nina Zimatskaya
Assistant Director
Lidiya Dukhnitskaya
Assistant Director
Valeri Bychenkov
Assistant Director
Semyon Goloshchyokin
Executive Producer
Marina Azizyan
Production Design, Costume Design
Igor Vuskovich
Production Design
K. Polukhin
Camera Operator
A. Kotov
Assistant Camera
Valery Mironov
Assistant Camera
Aleksandr Zavyalov
Visual Effects Camera
Georgiy Senotov
Visual Effects Camera
Viktoriya Mogilyanskaya
Assistant Costume Designer
Aleksey Gribov
Key Makeup Artist
Lyudmila Stambirskaya
Key Makeup Artist
Anna Tubenshlyak
Second Unit Director
Boris Khutoryansky
Sound Recordist
E. Vladimirov
Visual Effects Designer
Lev Kholmov
Visual Effects Designer
Yevgeniy Demmeni
VFX Artist
Andrey Petrov
Original Music Composer
Aleksandr Galich
Lyricist
Igor Belsky
Choreographer
B. Smirnov
Assistant Production Design
Yu. Kalinin
Assistant Production Design
Anatoli Badkhen
Conductor
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