''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' (russian: Сказка о царе Салтане, Skazka o tsare Saltane) is a 1966 fantasy film based on the
eponymous 1831 tale by
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
, directed by
Aleksandr Ptushko
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred ...
.
Plot
Three sisters are sitting by the window telling each other what they would do if the Tsar marries them. The first one would arrange a wedding banquet for all people, the second would dress everyone elegantly. The third and the youngest, however, says: "I would not give the Tsar money and goods, but instead a son with strength and courage."
The Tsar, who hears this conversation, takes the youngest woman as his wife. He places the other two as court cook and weaver. Envious of their youngest sister, the two join and come to the Tsar's court.
Some time later, the Tsar must go to war. His wife tells him in a letter that she gave birth to a son. The Tsar's reply is intercepted by the sisters and the mother-in-law and falsified to be so that the wife and son are sealed in a keg and thrown into the sea.
After a while they find themselves on a beach of a barren island. There the adult son rescues the life of a swan. This swan is an enchanted princess. She creates a beautiful city for the mother and son, whose inhabitants make him Prince Gwidon. The swan also helps Gwidon disguised as an insect to see his father.
Some time later, the Tsar – against the wish of the sisters – comes to this city and recognizes his wife and son again.
Cast
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Vladimir Andreyev - Tsar Saltan
*
Larisa Golubkina
Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina (Russian: ''Лари́са Ива́новна Голу́бкина''; born 9 March 1940, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian actress.
She entered the Moscow Musical School in 1955, graduating after four years, and the ...
- Queen
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Oleg Vidov
Oleg Borisovich Vidov (russian: Олег Борисович Видов; June 11, 1943 – May 15, 2017) was a Soviet Russian American actor, film director and producer. He appeared in 50 films beginning in 1961. A refugee from his native Sovi ...
- Prince Gvidon
*Ksenia Ryabinkina - Princess Swan (voiced by Nina Gulyaeva)
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Sergey Martinson
Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мартинсон; – 2 September 1984) was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. He became People's Artist of the ...
- guardian of Saltan
*Olga Viklandt - mother-in-law (credited as "O. Viklandt")
*Vera Ivleva - weaver
*Nina Belyaeva - cook
*Victor Kolpakov - 1st deacon
*Yury Chekulaev - sleeping man
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Valery Nosik
Valery Benediktovich Nosik (Валерий Бенедиктович Носик, 9 October 1940, Moscow, USSR, — 4 January 1995, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Russian film and stage actor, the People's Artist of Russia (1994) who appe ...
- servant
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Grigory Shpigel
Grigory Oyzerovich Spiegel (russian: Григо́рий О́йзерович Шпи́гель; 24 July 1914 — 28 April 1981) was a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974).
Biography
He worked as a pleater at ...
- governor
*Evgeny Mayhrovsky - jester
*Yakov Belenky - 1st ship-master
*Boris Bityukov - 2nd ship-master / 1st boyar
*Sergei Golovanov - 3rd ship-master
*Alexander Degtyar - 4th ship-master
*Artem Karapetyan - 5th ship-master
*Yury Kireev - 6th ship-master
*Grigory Mikhaylov - 7th ship-master
*Mikhail Orlov - 8th ship-master
*Dmitry Orlovsky - 9th ship-master
*Gurgen Tonunts - 10th ship-master
*Vladimir Ferapontov - 11th ship-master
References
External links
1960s fantasy films
Films based on works by Aleksandr Pushkin
Films based on Russian folklore
Films based on Slavic mythology
Soviet fantasy films
Films based on fairy tales
1960s Russian-language films
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