Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
1963 · 80 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 1,561 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Rou
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 649 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:04 Second Artists' Association
00:04:39 - You chickenheart. - No, I am not!
00:06:38 And don't touch sweets. I don't want you to spoil your appetite.
00:09:36 then I must have the same name, but back to front.
00:12:45 It's not funny!
00:16:36 Dneirf refuses to make crooked mirrors.
00:19:40 Our king just loves to eat, Cooks prepare all kind of treat!
00:22:15 Lost your way?
00:25:02 Now is the time of changing the Guard of Pages.
00:29:13 Look, the key!
00:32:00 - And the Marriageable Princesses? - They too.
00:33:43 - And what do you think? - Four hundred!
00:35:49 What do you mean? Just multiplied?
00:38:18 Even babies know that secret.
00:40:40 Speak up.
00:43:16 Your father executed your grandfather
00:45:37 Execute him! Immediately!
00:47:59 All right, but just for one moment.
00:51:44 - Someone has arrived. - Big deal!
00:54:22 Etik the First!
01:02:11 Are you going to tell anyone?
01:04:44 The key!
01:11:51 More lively getting our step, Because we have our flag!
01:14:47 The End