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Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)

Genre : Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Runtime : 1H 20M

Director : Aleksandr Rou

Synopsis

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.

Actors

Olga Yukina
Olga Yukina
Оля (Olya)
Tatyana Yukina
Tatyana Yukina
Яло (Yalo)
Anatoli Kubatsky
Anatoli Kubatsky
Король Йагупоп 77-й (Torrap 77 [Jagupop 77])
Andrey Fayt
Andrey Fayt
Главнейший министр Нушрок (Etik Kcalb [Nushrok])
Tamara Nosova
Tamara Nosova
Тетушка Аксал (Aunt Sserac[Aunt Aksal])
Tatyana Barysheva
Tatyana Barysheva
Бабушка Оли (Olya's Grandmother)
Lidiya Vertinskaya
Lidiya Vertinskaya
Анидаг (Ekans [Anidag])
Zoya Vasilkova
Zoya Vasilkova
Придворная в золотом
Georgi Millyar
Georgi Millyar
Наиглавнейший церемониймейстер
Andrey Stapran
Andrey Stapran
Гурд (Dneirf [Grood])
Ivan Kuznetsov
Ivan Kuznetsov
Бар (Evals [Barr])
Arkadi Tsinman
Arkadi Tsinman
Наиглавнейший министр Абаж (Daot [Abag])

Crews

Aleksandr Rou
Aleksandr Rou
Director
Lev Arkadyev
Lev Arkadyev
Writer
Arkadiy Filippenko
Arkadiy Filippenko
Music

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