Similar in subject to and perhaps inspired by the novel Through The Looking Glass, the film centers around an encounter between a girl named Olya Yukina and a mysterious counterpart, Yalo, while staring into a mirror. The characters are exact opposites: Yalo is the absolute opposite of Olya in every way. Where Yalo is organized and precise, Olya is careless and absent-minded. In the story, Olya steps through the mirror into the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors where Yalo resides. The kingdom, under the rule of King Yagupop LXXVII (reverse of Popugay, meaning parrot - Torrap) produces crooked mirrors that brainwash its people through subtle changes in reality. When Yalo's friend, a man named Gurd (reverse of Drug, meaning friend - Dneirf), is suddenly imprisoned for refusing to make crooked mirrors by the evil leaders "Anidag" (reverse of Gadina, meaning snake - Ekans), "Nushrok" (reverse of Korshun, meaning Kite (bird) - Etik) and "Abazh" (reverse of Zhaba, meaning toad - Daot), Olya decides to accompany Yalo to rescue him. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Family, Fantasy |
Directed By: | Aleksandr Rou |
Written By: | Vitali Gubarev, Lev Arkadyev |
Cast: | Aleksandr Khvylya, Tatyana Yukina, Andrei Stapran, Valentin Bryleev, Nadezhda Samsonova, Andrei Alyoshin, Olga Yukina, Lidiya Korolyova, Lyudmila Karaush, Vera Altayskaya, Tatyana Barysheva, P. Alekseyev, Ivan Kuznetsov, D. Bakhtin, Tamara Nosova, Anatoli Kubatsky, Zoya Vasilkova, Lidiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Shcherbakov, Lyudmila Sukhova, Nikolay Romanov, Georgiy Millyar, Vyacheslav Gostinsky, Arkadi Tsinman, Pavel Pavlenko, Valentina Kutsenko, Andrey Fayt |
In Theaters: | Aug 28, 1963 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
Production: | Kinostudiya imeni M. Gorkogo, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie |