The Wild Swans
1987 · 86 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 93 VOTES · DIR. Helle Karis
Overview
Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being swans all day long and only at night can they regain their true form. When Eliise is 15 years old, she learns about the fate of her brothers and now she must overcome the obstacles put in her way by her stepmother in order to release her brothers from the spell.
Dialogue Timeline — 273 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 TALLINNFILM
00:01:59 on the king's command and with the queen's permission
00:02:40 It's Providence itself who calls her.
00:04:57 She is to be a princess.
00:06:42 Who is this girl?
00:10:48 My dear girl.
00:11:45 You shall find your brothers.
00:13:41 - May God help you. - Thank you.
00:15:30 I wanted to ask you...
00:16:56 Now I know that I'll see my brothers.
00:19:46 Elise, the evil queen cast a spell over us
00:21:49 Kristjan
00:23:08 The same nettle grows here, round the hut.
00:23:48 Even if it takes years to do that
00:36:31 You don't want to be my queen?
00:49:51 The same nettle grows here, round the hut.
00:56:03 Where is your home?
00:58:56 Do you love me?
01:00:17 Trouble! Trouble! Our queen is a witch.
01:07:05 If the queen is a witch
01:11:19 Are you waiting for the sun or are you longing for the moon?
01:19:12 My sister
01:20:40 Archbishop - Andreis ZAGARS
01:21:58 The End
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed273
Dialogue density3.2 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:21:58
Production Record
DirectorHelle Karis
LanguageET
IMDb votes93