Underplayed Gems

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1950)

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish poster
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
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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.

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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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