Directing
Aleksandr Rou
Born February 24, 1906 · Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Died December 28, 1973 · aged 67
Aleksandr Rou is widely remembered as the “Soviet Walt Disney,” a filmmaker whose fairy-tale movies became cultural touchstones across the Eastern Bloc. Specializing in magical adventures drawn from Russian folklore, Rou crafted films filled with enchanted forests, witches and heroes. His imaginative style, blending folkloric tradition with cinematic spectacle, made him one of the most successful …
Known For
Cinderella · 1961Cinderella
★ 5.91961
MovieMusicFamily
The Bolshoi Ballet star in Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella.
Father Frost · 1965Father Frost
★ 6.21965
MovieFamilyFantasy
A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
Father Frost · 2010Father Frost
★ 9.02010
MovieComedyMusic
A modern take on an old folk tale. The musical retains the characters and motifs of the well-known tale by Alexander Rowe, but adds new plot collisions and characters.
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka · 1961Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
★ 7.21961
MovieComedyFantasy
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Vasilisa the Beautiful · 1940Vasilisa the Beautiful
★ 6.61940
MovieFamilyFantasy
Russian folk tale about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.
Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes · 1968Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes
★ 6.11968
MovieFantasyFamily
Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors · 1963Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
★ 6.91963
MovieAdventureFamily
Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya: 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.
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair · 1970Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
★ 6.61970
MovieFamilyFantasy
One day, King Yeremei decides to go on a long hike in order to consider all his areas and compile their register. A well appears on his way home, but as soon as the sovereign bent over him, he was seized by the underwater king Chudo-Yudo and demanded an unusual ransom for his release — that which is in the state of Yeremei, but which he does not know about. The tsar is forced to agree to these conditions, because he thinks that each blade of grass was taken into account in the inventory — he still does not suspect that in his absence the Queen gave birth to him an heir.
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Without Dowry · 1937Without Dowry
★ 6.21937
MovieDramaRomance
Larisa Ogudalova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry
First Assistant Director
Our Cinema · 1940Our Cinema
★ 9.01940
MovieDocumentary
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