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
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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.
00:19:35 What an appetite King has!
00:22:12 We lost our way.
00:24:53 That's right, he looks like a toad. All green.
00:28:58 You won't get mixed up? Keep your eyes open.
00:31:56 Resting after the grand promenade.
00:33:41 Dunderhead!
00:35:41 You didn't have enough time to add up all the hundreds.
00:37:57 It's interesting.
00:40:34 Your Majesty!
00:43:04 But your grandfather took the crown from her
00:45:27 - Straight mirrors? - The people see the truth!
00:47:49 Ice-cream, cakes, sodas!
00:51:06 What happened?
00:54:01 Isn't it somewhat premature?
01:02:03 - We're boys. - No, you are not.
01:04:19 You will, fat toad!
01:11:32 Like early morning sun at dawn, Alight it's over your head.
01:14:23 What's wrong, honey?