A Very Old Story

The story

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 & crew

Oleg DalSoldier / Puppet master

Marina NeyolovaPrincess / innkeeper's daughter

Vladimir EtushKing / Innkeeper

Georgiy Vitsingood wizard

Vera Titovawitch / davil's grandmother

Viktor PerevalovPrince-chimney sweep

Georgiy ShtilEastern Prince

Anatoly Korolkevichdoorman

Georgi Georgiu"thick"

Lev Lemke"thin"

Igor DmitrievCast

Boris LyoskinCast