''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' (russian: Ска́зка о царе́ Салта́не , translit=Skazka o tsare Saltanye) is a 1984 Soviet

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feature film directed by Lev Milchin and Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is an adaptation of the 1831 poem of the same name by

Aleksandr 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, ...

. There are few words in the film besides those of the poem itself, which is read from beginning to end by the narrator and the voice actors. Some portions of the poem are skipped. The movie was adapted in English in the 1990s by Films by Jove for the series '' Stories from My Childhood''.

Plot

Nearly identical to that of the original poem. Three maidens under a window spun late in the evening ... And then much that was: both love, and slander, both treachery, and miracles, and set of magic adventures, and thirty three athletes, and, of course, happy end ... Adventures of the brave tsarevitch Gvidon, the great tsarevna-Swan and the tsar Saltan will remind that love, fidelity and strength of mind always win!

Creators

Reception

Fellow film director Yuri Norstein, who had previously worked with Ivanov-Vano, praised ''Tsar Saltans direction:

Home video

''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' was first released on home video in the early 1990s, by film association Krupny Plan. Several years later, Krupny Plan again issued the film, in a VHS collection that contained other animated adaptations of Pushkin's fairy tales. The film was later released by original producer Soyuzmultfilm. In the 2000s it was reissued on DVD by both Soyuzmultfilm and Krupny Plan, and in 2003 with Soyuzmultfilm's collection "A Gold Collection of Favourite Cartoons”.

External links

The film
at the

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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)
at Animatsiya.net, with subtitles in several languages including English
The film at myltik.ru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984 film), The 1984 films Films based on fairy tales Russian children's fantasy films Films based on works by Aleksandr Pushkin Films directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano 1980s Russian-language films Soviet animated films Films based on Russian folklore Animated films based on Slavic mythology Soyuzmultfilm 1980s children's fantasy films 1984 animated films Soviet children's films

Plot

Creators

Reception

Home video

See also

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