The Tale of Tsar Saltan

A lush, storybook fairy-tale with a cruel streak, sweeping you along through palaces and stormy seas toward a satisfying reckoning.

Directed by

Sarik Andreasyan

Genres

Fantasy

Starring

Pavel Priluchny, Aleksey Onezhen, Liza Moryak

Overview

One dark winter evening, the young tsar Saltan was lucky enough to find himself a tsarina from a simple Russian family. He was so impressed by the speech of the young charmer that he married her the same evening, and took her two sisters with him to the palace as servants. However, the treacherous girls do not share the happiness of their luckier sister and begin to plot. Saltan leaves for a long military campaign, during which the young queen gives birth to his son. The evil sisters write a dispatch to the tsar, where they brazenly lie about the child: they say, the queen gave birth to someone unknown, "neither a son nor a daughter." Saltan is upset, but orders to wait until his return. The sisters substitute the letter, and as a result, the girl and her son are sealed in a wooden barrel and thrown into the ocean in the best sadistic traditions.

How it feels

Whimsical, dark, earnest and romantic. Measured and easy to follow.

About

Betrayal, family, survival, love

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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