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Release Date:
February 19, 2026
Original Title:
Сказка о царе Салтане
Alternate Titles:
Skazka o tsare Saltane
Genres:
Drama | Fantasy
Production Companies:
K.B.A.
Production Countries:
Russia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
One dark winter evening, the young tsar Saltan was lucky enough to find himself a tsarina from a simple Russian family. He was so impressed by the speech of the young charmer that he married her the same evening, and took her two sisters with him to the palace as servants. However, the treacherous girls do not share the happiness of their luckier sister and begin to plot. Saltan leaves for a long military campaign, during which the young queen gives birth to his son. The evil sisters write a dispatch to the tsar, where they brazenly lie about the child: they say, the queen gave birth to someone unknown, "neither a son nor a daughter." Saltan is upset, but orders to wait until his return. The sisters substitute the letter, and as a result, the girl and her son are sealed in a wooden barrel and thrown into the ocean in the best sadistic traditions.
Book:
Alexander Pushkin
Costume Design:
Gulnara Shakhmilova
Director:
Sarik Andreasyan
Director of Photography:
Kirill Zotkin
Editor:
Georgy Isaakyan
Executive Producer:
Ilya Shuvalov
Makeup Designer:
Elena Vakhovskaya
Producer:
Gevond Andreasyan
Sarik Andreasyan
Narek Stepanyan
Daniil Galushka
Production Design:
Ilya Shirokov
Eliza Kalachan
Writer:
Aleksey Gravitskiy
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