The Snow Queen (‹See Tfd›Russian: Снежная королева, romanized: Snezhnaya koroleva) is a Soviet 1967 fantasy drama film, directed by Gennadi Kazansky and based on the eponymous 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.[2][3]
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Directed by | Gennadi Kazansky |
Written by | Evgeny Schwartz |
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Cinematography | Sergei Ivanov |
Music by | Nadezhda Simonyan |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (dubbed version) |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Plot
editOn a frosty winter evening, the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai and turns his heart into a piece of ice. Gerda, wishing to return Kai home goes to search for him. She experiences many trials to get to the Snow Queen's palace and to retrieve Kai from icy captivity.
Cast
edit- Valery Nikitenko – The Storyteller
- Elena Proklova – Gerda
- Slava Ziupa – Kay
- Evgenia Melnikova – Grandmother
- Natalia Klimova – The Snow Queen
- Nikolai Boyarsky – Counselor
- Yevgeny Leonov – King Eric XXIX
- Irina Gubanova – The Princess
- George Korolchuk – Prince
- Olga Viklandt – The Chieftain
- Era Ziganshina – The Little Robber
- Andrei Kostrichkin – Ghost
- Vera Titova – Inkwell
See also
edit- The Snow Queen (1957 film)
References
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