Three Fat Men (1966)

Original title

Три толстяка

Directed by

Iosif Shapiro, Aleksey Batalov

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a fictional country, three wealthy rulers live in luxury while a group of rebels plots to overthrow them. A young girl named Suok and a tightrope walker named Tibul work together with the revolutionaries to free a captured inventor and bring down the cruel regime.

whimsicallightheartedmusicalfairy-talenostalgicplayfultheatricalold-fashioned

What happens

Three Fat Men (Russian: Три толстяка, romanized: Tri tolstyaka) is a 1966 Soviet children's fantasy film directed by Aleksey Batalov and Iosif Shapiro based on the eponymous novel by Yury Olesha. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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