Summary
The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 72GoodWatch 69
IMDb7.4
Letterboxd · 236 ratings3.5/5
Running time
1 h 26 min
Shorter than most comedies, −14 min on the typical 100
typical 10086Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries
Released
1971
September 18, 1971
55 years ago
Genres
ComedyFantasyDramaRomanceFamilyLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
and 14 more18 people
- Oleg DalScientist / his Shadow
- Anastasiya VertinskayaPrincess
- Marina NeyolovaAnnunziata
- Lyudmila GurchenkoYuliya Julie
- Vladimir EtushPietro
- Andrey MironovCaesar Borgia
- Sergei FilippovFirst minister
- Zinoviy GerdtFinance minister
Georgiy VitsinDoctor
Anatoli AbramovCouncilor
Konstantin AdashevskyOldest footman
Lyudmila VolynskayaTradeswoman
Kirill GunCourtier- BIBoris IzotovCourtier
Anatoly KorolkevichCourtier
Oskar LindCourtier
Oleg KhromenkovWarder
Zhanna SukhopolskayaNurse
Directing · 5
- Nadezhda Kosheverova Director
- Ernest Yasan First Assistant Director
- L. Berger Second Assistant Director
- E. Sukhorukova First Assistant Director
- Lev Makhtin Assistant Director
Writing · 5
- Yuli Dunsky Writer
- Valeri Frid Writer
- Hans Christian Andersen Story
- Yevgeni Shvarts Theatre Play
- Aleksandr Bessmertniy Script Editor
Production · 1
- Igor Lebed Executive Producer
Camera · 4
- Konstantin Ryzhov Director of Photography
- Genadi Nesterenko Camera Operator
- V. Gusev Assistant Camera
- A. Syagin Assistant Camera
Editing · 1
- Valentina Mironova Editor
Sound · 2
- Andrey Eshpay Original Music Composer
- Boris Khutoryansky Sound Director
Art · 4
- Valeri Dorrer Production Design
- Vladimir Kostin Production Design
- Mikhail Suzdalov Assistant Production Design
- Valeria Volynskaya Assistant Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 3
- Natalya Vasilyeva Costume Design
- Vasili Goryunov Makeup Artist
- Lyudmila Stambirskaya Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 3
- Aleksandr Zavyalov VFX Director of Photography
- E. Vladimirov VFX Artist
- Georgiy Senotov VFX Director of Photography
Other crew · 1
- Kirill Laskari Choreographer
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