The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1950)

Original title

Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке

Directed by

Mikhail Tsekhanovsky

Genre

cinematic fairy tale

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

32 min

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Soviet animated short film. It adapts Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale about a poor fisherman who catches a magical goldfish. The fish offers him wishes, and his wife demands increasingly grand things.

classicwhimsicalmoralisticsimplenostalgicfable-likegentleold-fashioned

What happens

Le Conte du pêcheur et du petit poisson (Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке, Skazka o rybake i rybke) est un film de soviétique réalisé en 1950 par Mikhaïl Tsekhanovski. C'est l'adaptation du conte éponyme d'Alexandre Pouchkine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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