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Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
1963
Directed by
Aleksandr Rou
80 min
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.
Ratings
3.5
Crew
Co-Writer
Director of Photography
Original Music Composer
Sound Director
Second Unit Director
Script Editor
Makeup & Hair
Camera Operator
Details
Release Date
1963-12-28
Runtime
80 min
Original Language
Russian
Languages
Russian
Production Companies
Gorky Film Studios
Countries
Soviet Union
Genres
Adventure
Family
Fantasy