Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

May 5, 1963

1h 20m

★ 6.7

Overview

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.

Genres

Adventure

Family

Fantasy

Production Companies

Gorky Film Studios

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Cast

Оля (Olya)

Olga Yukina

Яло (Yalo)

Tatyana Yukina

Король Йагупоп 77-й (Torrap 77 [Jagupop 77])

Anatoliy Kubatskiy

Главнейший министр Нушрок (Etik Kcalb [Nushrok])

Andrey Fayt

Тетушка Аксал (Aunt Sserac[Aunt Aksal])

Tamara Nosova

Бабушка Оли (Olya's Grandmother)

Tatyana Barysheva

Анидаг (Ekans [Anidag])

Lidiya Vertinskaya

Придворная в золотом

Zoya Vasilkova

Наиглавнейший церемониймейстер

Georgi Millyar

Гурд (Dneirf [Grood])

Andrey Stapran

Бар (Evals [Barr])

Ivan Kuznetsov

Наиглавнейший министр Абаж (Daot [Abag])

Arkadi Tsinman

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