Short film

The Tale of the Snow Maiden
1957 · 10 min
A gentle, storybook puppet fable that unfolds like a folk memory, tender and quietly sad as the seasons turn.
- Directed by
- Vladimir Danilevich, Vladimir Degtyarev
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy
- Starring
- Yuri Khrzhanovsky, Georgiy Vitsin
- Overview
- Once an old man and an old woman fashioned their daughter out of the snow, and Santa Claus revived her. The Snow Maiden was beautiful, kind, hardworking, and everyone loved her very much. Spring came. The Snow Maiden stopped playing and hid from the hot sun all the time. Somehow, the village children started jumping over a blazing fire. They persuaded the Snow Maiden to take part in the game...
- How it feels
- Melancholic, warm, whimsical and earnest. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Family, nature, death, identity
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Vladimir Danilevich, Vladimir Degtyarev
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy
- Starring
- Yuri Khrzhanovsky, Georgiy Vitsin

