Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

80 mins | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | May 5, 1963

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example 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.

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

80 mins | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | May 5, 1963

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example 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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Королевство кривых зеркал
Directors Aleksandr Rou
Writers Lev Arkadyev

Cast

Olga Yukina

as Оля (Olya)

Tatyana Yukina

as Яло (Yalo)

Anatoli Kubatsky

as Король Йагупоп 77-й (Torrap 77 [Jagupop 77])

Andrey Fayt

as Главнейший министр Нушрок (Etik Kcalb [Nushrok])

Tamara Nosova

as Тетушка Аксал (Aunt Sserac[Aunt Aksal])

Tatyana Barysheva

as Бабушка Оли (Olya's Grandmother)

Lidiya Vertinskaya

as Анидаг (Ekans [Anidag])

Zoya Vasilkova

as Придворная в золотом

Georgi Millyar

as Наиглавнейший церемониймейстер

Andrey Stapran

as Гурд (Dneirf [Grood])

Ivan Kuznetsov

as Бар (Evals [Barr])

Arkadi Tsinman

as Наиглавнейший министр Абаж (Daot [Abag])