The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1967 · 80 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 535 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Ptushko
Overview
Based on a famous fairy tale, in verse, by Alexander Pushkin, this ravishingly beautiful fantasy is about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Driven from the Russian court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart.
Dialogue Timeline — 457 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:02 MOSFILM
00:01:43 Ye. MAIKHROVSKY as Jester
00:04:53 What the youngest maiden said Made him feel uncommon glad.
00:08:43 Vowed troth to each other.
00:12:18 We must see what we can do
00:18:30 Send the Tsar a message swift, Let him know of heaven's gift!
00:20:51 Neither mouse!
00:25:11 To his wise and true boyars.
00:26:58 Drowned in secret ere the dawn.
00:35:33 And, receding, splash no more.
00:39:54 Tell me, for I long to know, Why we're doomed to suffer so?
00:47:18 And a brave and handsome lad Walked beside her always.
00:49:54 Past the Island of Buyan, To the realm of Tsar Saltan.
00:53:02 Gracious Tsar, do not delay! To your palace hasten, pray.
00:54:23 But if my health permits, I may Come and visit him some day.
00:57:14 In their wake, for all to see
01:00:46 Another ship from overseas Has just arrived, Your Majesty.
01:02:20 Stranger things exit. There lives
01:04:15 Whither do you wend?
01:06:35 Who is she you wish to wed?
01:09:51 Gracious Tsar, do not delay! To you palace hasten, pray.
01:11:51 - Prince Guidon reigns there in glory. - He is famed in song and story.
01:13:54 The Tsar to meet himself must he.
01:21:18 The End