The Stone Flower

The Stone Flower

70 mins | Family, Fantasy | April 28, 1946

This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in handling rare precious stones found in the Ural Mountains. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a fairy who ordered for herself an unusual stone flower.

The Stone Flower

70 mins | Family, Fantasy | April 28, 1946

The Stone Flower
This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in handling rare precious stones found in the Ural Mountains. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a fairy who ordered for herself an unusual stone flower.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Каменный цветок
Directors Aleksandr Ptushko
Writers Ivan Keller, Pavel Bazhov

Cast

Tamara Makarova

as Khozyayka Medhoy Gori

Mikhail Troyanovsky

as Prokopych

Mikhail Yanshin

as Severyan

Aleksandr Kleberer

as Dedushka slyshko

Serafim Zaytsev

as Yefimka

Lidiya Deikun

as Vikoriha