The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)

Original title

Сказка о царе Салтане

Directed by

Lev Milchin, Ivan Ivanov-Vano

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

56 min

Rated

Atp

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tsar marries a kind young woman who gives birth to a son. His jealous sisters plot against her and the boy is set adrift at sea. They land on a mysterious island where magical events unfold.

whimsicalnostalgicpoeticgentlestorybook-likelyricalcalmfantastical

What happens

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Russian: Ска́зка о царе́ Салта́не, romanized: Skazka o tsare Saltanye) is a 1984 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by Lev Milchin and Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is an adaptation of the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. There are few words in the film besides those of the poem itself, which is read from beginning to end by the narrator and the voice actors. Some portions of the poem are skipped. The movie was adapted in English in the 1990s by Films by Jove for the series Stories from My Childhood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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