Movielogr
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)
Directed by 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.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Olga Yukina | Tatyana Yukina | Anatoli Kubatsky | Andrey Fayt | Tamara Nosova | Tatyana Barysheva | Lidiya Vertinskaya | Zoya Vasilkova | Georgi Millyar | Andrey Stapran | Ivan Kuznetsov | Arkady Tsinman