The Magical Portrait

The Magical Portrait

77 mins | Family, Romance, Fantasy | July 31, 1997

Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...

The Magical Portrait

77 mins | Family, Romance, Fantasy | July 31, 1997

The Magical Portrait
Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...
Producers Rakurs, Sang I
Original title Волшебный портрет
Directors Gennadi Vasilyev
Writers Shi U. Zhang, Gennadi Vasilyev

Cast

Sergey Shnyryov

as Ivan

Li Gao

as Xiao Qing

Ariadna Shengelaia

as Sorceress

Valentina Telichkina

as Ivan's mother

Vladimir Antonik

as Knyaz

Irina Bezrukova

as Malachite Fairy

Andrey Martynov

as Titus

Tamara Sidorenko

as Titus's wife

Anna Markova

as Motya

Natalya Goncharova

as Innkeeper