The Magic Weaver (1960)

Original title

Марья-искусница

Directed by

Alexander Rou

Genre

fantasy film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 08m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An old soldier helps a young boy rescue his mother Maria the Weaver from the clutches of an evil undersea king.

whimsicallightheartedfairy-taleupbeatadventurousnostalgicfamily-friendlyhopeful

What happens

The Magic Weaver (Russian: Марья-искусница, romanized: Maria-iskusnitsa, "Maria the Weaver") is a 1960 Soviet children's live-action fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou and filmed at Gorky Film Studio. It was additionally released in Hungary in 1964. The film was imported to the West in the 1960s and ran in the U.S. in 1966 with English dubbed, on distribution from Allied Artists Pictures. The film tells the story of how an old soldier helps a boy find his mother, Maria the Weaver, who has been kidnapped and carried away by an evil king of the undersea kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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