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The Snow Maiden

1952 · 67 min

A painted folk tale that drifts like a winter dream, lovely and strange, then stings with sudden sorrow.

Overview
The tale about a girl with a cold heart who is dying in agony because of joy and love.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • identity
  • death
  • grief
  • nature
Places
  • fantasy world
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour3
Realism2
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
family, animation, fantasy, adventure
Directed by
Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Written by
Oleg Leonidov, Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Starring
Nikolai Bogolyubov, Margarita Kupriyanova, Anastasiya Zuyeva, Georgi Millyar, Georgiy Vitsin, Leonid Pirogov, Vladlen Davydov, Irina Maslennikova
Music
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Cinematography
Elena Petrova, Nikolay Voinov
Runtime
67 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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