Jack Frost
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Cast & Crew
Aleksandr Rou
Aleksandr Khvylya
Natasha Sedykh
Eduard Izotov
Inna Churikova
Pavel Pavlenko
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Synopsis
Beautiful Nastenka is forced to work as a scullery maid by her mean-tempered stepmother, who tyrannizes Nastenka's weak-willed father and dotes on her own ugly daughter, Marfushka. Nastenka falls in love with Ivan, a handsome, conceited young man who has set out to make his fortune in the world. To teach Ivan a lesson, Father Mushroom endows him with the head of a bear and warns him that he will remain in this condition until he accomplishes a good deed. Nastenka's stepmother persuades the girl's father to abandon her in the forest, but kindly Jack Frost finds her and carries her back to his castle. Ivan, searching for his lost love, forces an old witch to help him. As he makes his way to Jack Frost's castle, the evil witch sends her cat to destroy Nastenka. The girl is tricked into touching Jack Frost's magic scepter, and she falls into a frozen, death-like trance. Ivan finds her apparently lifeless body and begins to weep. One of his tears falls onto Nastenka's cheek, causing her to awaken from her sleep; and Ivan regains his own handsome head. As they prepare for a lavish wedding, Nastenka's stepsister is sent into the forest in the hope that she will likewise find a handsome stranger, but she returns alone in a sled pulled by three fat pigs. Nastenka's father regains his courage and assumes control of the household.
Director
Aleksandr Rou
Cast
Aleksandr Khvylya
Natasha Sedykh
Eduard Izotov
Inna Churikova
Pavel Pavlenko
Vera Altayskaya
Georgiy Millyar
M. Yanshin
G. Borisova
Anatoliy Kubatskiy
Valentin Bryleyev
T. Pelttser
T. Barysheva
V. Popova
Z. Vorkul
A. Zuyeva
D. Bakhtin
V. Zhukovskiy
N. Zorina
K. Kozlenkova
M. Korabelnikova
A. Mukhin
V. Petrova
O. Peshkov
L. Potyomkin
A. Stapran
K. Starostin
A. Timontayev
T. Kharchenko
Yu. Chekulayev
A. Chumina
M. Shcherbakov
Olya Yukina
Tanya Yukina
Crew
L. Akimov
G. Alekseyev
Nikolay Budashkin
Anatoliy Dikan
Nikolay Erdman
B. Kanevskiy
Arseniy Klopotovskiy
Yu. Milovskiy
M. Simonov
Dmitriy Surenskiy
Mikhail Volpin
Mikhail Volpin
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Released in the U.S.S.R. in 1965 as Morozko; running time: ca90 min.
