A Very Old Story (1968)

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.

Released

1968-12-31

Genres

Family, Fantasy

Runtime

90 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Nadezhda Kosheverova, Valeri Frid, Yuli Dunsky

TMDB rating

6.4/10 from 22 votes