The Wild Swans

Dec 18, 1987

1h 26m

★ 5.5

Overview

Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being swans all day long and only at night can they regain their true form. When Eliise is 15 years old, she learns about the fate of her brothers and now she must overcome the obstacles put in her way by her stepmother in order to release her brothers from the spell.

Genres

Adventure

Fantasy

Family

Production Companies

Tallinnfilm

The Wild Swans Trailers

Cast

Eliise

Katri Horma

Young King

Juris Žagars

Archbishop

Andrejs Žagars

Good Mother

Ines Aru

King, Eliise's Father

Gunnar Kilgas

Evil Queen

Liina Orlova

Old Man

Helend Peep

Chamber Master

Arvo Kruusement

Eliise's Brother

Kaspar Jancis

Eliise's Brother

Levi-Danel Mägila

Eliise's Brother

Peter Murdmaa

Eliise's Brother

Jürmo Eespere

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