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The Little Mermaid (1968)
Directed by Ivan Aksenchuk
Animation, Fantasy, Family · 28m
Rusalochka opens in modern day Copenhagen, Denmark. Several tourists gather around the capital's famous mermaid statue, as a tour guide explains its significance. A fish in the water below the tourists scoffs at their foolishness, and then, proceeds to tell about the doomed love of the mermaid. Upon reaching her 15th birthday, the Little Mermaid is allowed to swim up to the surface above. As soon as she does, however, the Mermaid spots a young prince caught up in a dreadful storm. She admires the man's bravery and decides to save him, declaring that, "The beautiful and the brave should not perish." After the mermaid returns to the ocean, she decides that she wants to become human.
Cast
Nina Gulyayeva
Viktoriya Ivanova
Anatoliy Papanov
Yuliya Yulskaya
Lidiya Korolyova
Vladimir Troshin
Roza Makagonova
Crew
- Director
- Ivan Aksenchuk
- Writer
- Aleksandr Galich
- Novel
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Director of Photography
- Mikhail Druyan
- Original Music Composer
- Aleksandr Lokshin
- Editor
- Izabella Gerasimova
- Producer
- Fyodor Ivanov
Details
- Original title
- Русалочка
- Release date
- 1968-06-19
- Runtime
- 28m
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy, Family
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Soyuzmultfilm