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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.

Genres
Animation, Fantasy
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
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism2
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity2
Emotional weight5

Cast

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Details

Genres
animation, fantasy
Directed by
Vladimir Danilevich, Vladimir Degtyarev
Written by
Nikolai Abramov
Starring
Yuri Khrzhanovsky, Georgiy Vitsin
Music
Mieczysław Weinberg
Cinematography
Mikhail Kamenetskiy
Runtime
10 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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