Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)
Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal
75 min
Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya: 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.
- Release date
- August 28, 1963
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Arkadi Filippenko
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Cast
- Olga Yukina as Olya
- Tatyana Yukina as Yalo
- Anatoliy Kubatskiy as Yagupop 77-oy
- Andrey Fayt as Nushrok
- Tamara Nosova as tyotushka Aksal
- Tatyana Barysheva as Babushka
- Lidiya Vertinskaya as Anidag
- Georgiy Millyar as Наиглавнейший церемониймейстер
- Andrei Stapran as Gurd
- Ivan Kuznetsov as Bar
- Arkadi Tsinman as Abag
- Pavel Pavlenko
- Aleksandr Khvylya
- Valentin Bryleev
- Vera Altayskaya
- Vyacheslav Gostinsky
- Lyudmila Karaush
- Lidiya Korolyova
- Olga Yukina as Olia
- Tatyana Yukina as Ailo
- Tatyana Barysheva as Grandmother
- Andrei Stapran as Dneirf
- Ivan Kuznetsov as Evals
- Tamara Nosova as Aunt Lesaew
- Anatoliy Kubatskiy as King Torrap 77
- Arkadi Tsinman as Most Important Minister Daot
- Andrey Fayt as Important Minister Etik
- Lidiya Vertinskaya as Elitper
Crew
- Aleksandr Rou · Director
- Lev Arkadyev · Writer
- Vitali Gubarev · Writer
- Arkadi Filippenko · Composer
- Leonid Akimov · Cinematographer
- Vasiliy Dultsev · Cinematographer
- A. Ovcharova · Editor
- Arseni Klopotovsky · Production designer
- Aleksandr Vagichev · Production designer