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Category: Fairy Tale Movies
The Sword and the Dragon
is a Soviet fantasy film directed by the noted fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko, made at Mosfilm and released in 1956. It is based on the byliny tales of the bogatyr Ilya Muromets. Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a…
The Snow Queen
is an 1966 adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen”, directed by Gennadiy Kazanskiy. Two children, Gerda and Kay, overcome the evil intentions of the Snow Queen with human love and a capacity to fight fear. Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
is a 1966 Soviet fantasy film directed by Boris Rytsarev based on the tale Aladdin from One Thousand and One Nights. A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he’s granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father…
Old Man Khottabych
is a Sovcolor Soviet fantasy film produced in the USSR by Goskino at Kinostudyia Lenfilm (Lenfilm Studio) in 1956, based on a children’s book of the same name by Lazar Lagin who also wrote the film’s script, and directed by Gennadi Kazansky. A boy named Volka discovers an ancient vessel on the bottom of a…
The Adventures of Buratino
is a 1975 Live-action Soviet two-part Children’s musical television film produced by Belarusfilm. Directed by Leonid Nechayev, the film was an adaptation of The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Alexey Tolstoy in turn an adaptation of the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Inna Vetkina wrote the screenplay…
New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya
is a 1975 Soviet children’s film directed by Igor Usov and Gennadi Kazansky. Before a New Year evening Masha and Vitya decide to go to the forest full of fairy tales creatures.
Cinderella
is a Russian-Ukrainian musical film produced by Melorama Production in association with Channel One (Russia) and Inter (Ukraine), under direction of Semen Gorov in 2002.
A Very Old Story
is a 1968 Soviet musical film directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova. Based on the famous fairytale “The Tinderbox” by Hans Christian Andersen.
The Magic Weaver
is a 1960 Soviet children’s fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou and filmed at Gorky Film Studio. The story is about an old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who’s been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
is a 1966 Soviet film by Alexander Pushkin, directed by Alexander Ptushko. A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
By Pike
is a 1938 fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou. Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared.
The Snow Maiden
is a 1968 Soviet fairy tale movie directed by Pavel Kadochnikov. Based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
Kashchey the Immortal
is a 1945 black and white Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou. A beautiful maiden, Marya Morevna, gives her prospective husband, the mighty warrior Nikita Kozhemyaka, three riddles to solve before she’ll marry him. Before he can tell her the answers, the Russian land is invaded by the armies of Kashchei the Immortal, in…
The Little Mermaid
is a 1976 Soviet fantasy film directed by Vladimir Bychkov based on the fairy tale of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. The film is dedicated to the memory of the great Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen and is based upon one of his best fairy tales. A little Mermaid fell in love with…
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
is a 1969 Soviet fantasy film directed by Alexander Rowe and based on the fairy tale The Tale of Tsar Berendey by Vasily Zhukovsky. The film premiered December 30, 1970. Once upon a time there was a king Yeremei. He went to the annual campaign to make an inventory of his kingdom-state. He leaned over…
Rock’n Roll Wolf
is a musical film from 1976 and is a Romanian-Soviet-French co-production. Director Elisabeta Bostan. Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad…
Cinderella
is a 1947 Soviet musical film by Lenfilm studios. Directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro. Based on a classic fairytale “Cinderella” brilliantly adapted by Yevgeni Shvarts.
The Story of Voyages
is a 1982 Soviet Russian fantasy film directed by Alexander Mitta and starring Andrei Mironov. In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly,…
