The Scarlet Flower (1952)

Original title

Аленький цветочек

Directed by

Lev Atamanov

Genre

fantasy film, romance film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

42 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Nastenka asks her father for a simple scarlet flower as a gift. She soon finds herself in a magical castle with a kind but cursed beast.

romanticfairy-talemelancholichopefulwhimsicalgentlefamily-friendly

What happens

The Scarlet Flower (Russian: А́ленький цвето́чек, Álenkiy tsvetóchek) is a 1952 Soviet feature animated film directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story of the same name by Sergey Aksakov. Nastenka's song "During this time in a darling party"/"В эту пору в родимой сторонушке" was sung by the famous chamber singer Victoria Ivanova. In 1998, an English dub of the film featuring the voices of Amy Irving, Tim Curry and Robert Loggia, was released as part of Stories from My Childhood by Films by Jove. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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