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
00:01:59 Three fair maids far into night Sat and spun by candle light.
00:04:57 As for you, fair sisters two, Leave your home without ado;
00:08:48 Fair youth and maiden
00:12:21 To separate those loving two.
00:18:36 His son grows up, to ourjoy
00:20:55 Monster ever seen on earth!
00:25:26 Lose no time, but instantly
00:30:00 Whither now, boyars? We are Only servants of the tsar.
00:35:46 Let me see what I can do.
00:40:04 Or bewitched His Majesty.
00:47:29 Walked he did in silence.
00:50:04 And for Prince Guidon-for me Greet His Gracious Majesty.
00:53:22 Overseas, are all things well? Of what wonders can you tell?
00:54:38 Though your story may be true, It is neither strange nor new.
00:57:27 For these stalwart knights, Guidon, Are my brothers, every one.
01:01:04 We have sailed the seven seas. All is well where we have been.
01:02:33 Dazzling as the midnight moon, Radiant as the sun at noon.
01:04:48 By my parents own.
01:06:48 In her hair a crescent gleams, On her brow a bright star beams.
01:10:35 We have sailed the seven seas. All is well where we have been.
01:12:03 That you'll visit him some day, And regrets your long delay.
01:16:11 She is quite beyond compare!