Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1964)
Original title: Королевство кривых зеркал [Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal]
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Plot / Synopsis
Olya meets Yalo, while looking into the mirror. The story is about Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors. The two girls, Olya and Yalo, find themselves on an adventure to save Gurd, imprisoned for refusing to make crooked mirrors. He is jailed by the kingdom's evil forces, the trio Anidag, Nushrok, and Abazh. They meet Aunt Askal, The King's Chef, who helped them on their journey by hiding them and dressing them up as two pages of the King Yagupop the 77th. On meeting the king, the girls realise the extent of his stupidity, and discover who is really in charge. Despite Olya's bumbling mistakes, Gurd is saved, and evil is defeated...
review
People, people! This film is nothing like Alice in Wonderland, and forget about "cheap special effects." This is a Soviet film from the 60's after all. The broken jar has nothing to do with special mushrooms. Tarrop is not like criticisms of W; it's a tongue-and-cheek criticism of "rotten capitalism". It is pure unabashed sly propaganda aimed at children. But of course, having watched it as a kid growing up in USSR, you get engrossed in the actual fairy-tale aspects of having strong friendships, being honest, etc.. Yes, in Soviet films, they always made girls' dresses short, but in schools you would be kicked out if your dress was shorter than knee-length. .... it is a straight-forward propaganda tale that also taught kids good moral qualities, without all the super-junky-sugar coat freakiness of Disney cartoons. It is reminiscent of the cartoon "Three Fatsos" where there is also a commentary against imperialist enslavement of people via classicism and basically call for unity of the proletariat. Or even the Italian story of "Adventures of Chipollino". Again, everyone, it is not like Alice in Wonderland (how irritating and presumptuous)! It is a great Soviet classic! [Slightly edited by nurkunst]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145033/
Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Family | Fantasy
Complete name : Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1964).avi
Format : AVI
File size : 697 MiB
Duration : 1h 14mn
Overall bit rate : 1 301 Kbps
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Width : 512 pixels
Height : 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
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