Released:
1968-12-31

Overview:
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.

Director:
Nadezhda Kosheverova

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
Family, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Oleg Dal
  as
  Soldier / Puppet master
• 
  Marina Neyolova
  as
  Princess / innkeeper's daughter
• 
  Vladimir Etush
  as
  King / Innkeeper
• 
  Georgiy Vitsin
  as
  good wizard
• 
  Vera Titova
  as
  witch / davil's grandmother