A Very Old Story

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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.

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Creators

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Nadezhda Kosheverova

director

Hans Christian Andersen

writer

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Aleksandr Galich

writer

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Aleksandr Bessmertniy

writer

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Valeri Frid

writer

Yuli Dunsky

writer

Cast

Олег Даль actor

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Marina Neyolova actor Vladimir Etush actor

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Georgiy Vitsin actor Вера Титова actor Виктор Перевалов actor

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Georgiy Shtil actor

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Anatoly Korolkevich actor

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Georgi Georgiu actor Лев Лемке actor Игорь Дмитриев actor

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Boris Lyoskin actor

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Anatoli Abramov actor Олег Белов actor

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Tatyana Gorlova actor Кирилл Гун actor

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Vladimir Karpenko actor Владимир Костин actor

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Nikolay Kuzmin actor

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Oskar Lind actor