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 Dec. 31, 1968 90 min None+

Genres: Family, Fantasy

Keywords: imdb.title-directed-by-female, imdb.princess, imdb.king, imdb.taking-off-shoes, imdb.female-stockinged-feet, imdb.pantyhose, imdb.repetition-in-title + 2 more, imdb.foreign-language-adaptation, aspectratio.2-35-1

Production Companies: Lenfilm

Country: Soviet Union
Production Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian