The Stone Flower (1946)

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A young Ural stone-carver searches for a flower of perfect beauty and falls into the hands of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

★ Prize for colour, Cannes Film Festival 1946

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Year
1946
Director
Alexander Ptushko
Starring
Vladimir Druzhnikov, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Ekaterina Derevshchikova
Genre
Fantasy, Family
Running time
1 h 17 min
Based on
Ural tales by Pavel Bazhov
Language
Russian, English subtitles
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Danila is a gifted young stonecutter in the Ural mountains. He can carve almost anything, but he dreams of a perfect stone flower that he has heard about in legends.

His search leads him underground to the realm of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a beautiful and dangerous spirit who offers him everything, except a way home to his bride Katya.

One of the first Soviet colour features, The Stone Flower is a classic fairy tale from Alexander Ptushko, the master of Soviet fantasy films.

Did you know?

  • It won a prize for colour at the first Cannes festival in 1946.
  • It is based on tales collected by Pavel Bazhov in the Urals.

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