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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)

Fantasy Family
Release Date: 1967, January 2
Directors: Aleksandr Ptushko
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Mosfilm
Cast: Valentina Ananina, Gurgen Tonunts, Oleg Vidov, Valeriy Nosik, Viktor Uralsky, Oleg Mokshantsev, Sergei Martinson, Nikolai Barmin, Mikhail Orlov, Vladimir Andreyev, Larisa Golubkina, Vera Ivleva

Overview:

Based on a famous fairy tale, in verse, by Alexander Pushkin, this ravishingly beautiful fantasy is about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Driven from the Russian court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart.