Alice in the Land in the Other Side of the Mirror (1981)

Original title

Алиса в Зазеркалье

Directed by

Yefrem Pruzhanskyi

Genre

fairy tale

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

40 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Alice steps through a mirror into a backward world where chess pieces come to life and poems are recited in reverse. She meets talking flowers, a fussy Red Queen, and nonsense characters from Carroll's story.

whimsicaldreamlikeplayfullyricalteeteringnostalgicgentlesurreal

What happens

Alice Through the Looking Glass (Russian: Алиса в Зазеркалье, romanized: Alisa v Zazerkale) is a 1982 Soviet fantasy comedy animated short film, based on Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. The film was produced by Kievnauchfilm and directed by Ephram Pruzhansky. It was narrated by a selection of the best Soviet actors at the time, including Rostislav Plyatt, Marina Neyolova (Alice), Nikolai Karachentsov, and Liya Akhedzhakova. The text mostly follows the Russian translation of the book by Nina Demurova (poems translated by Samuil Marshak), but it was shortened to fit to the 38 minutes duration. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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