Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

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Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Soviet billboard theatrical poster of the film Nushrok, Abazh and Anidag trio (top), Olya and Yalo (bottom)
Directed by	Aleksandr Rou
Written by	Lev Arkadyev, Vitali Gubarev
Starring	Olga and Tatyana Yukina Andrei Fajt, Arkadi Tsinman, Lidiya Vertinskaya
Music by	Arkady Filippenko
Distributed by	Gorky Film Studio
Release date(s)	1963
Running time	75 min
Country	USSR
Language	Russian
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Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (Russian: Королевство Кривых Зеркал, translit. Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal) is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.

In the end of 2007 the TV Channel "Russia" filmed a musical remake - with the same name, featuring stars of Russian scene Nikolay Baskov and Alla Pugacheva.

[edit] Plot summary

Both the story by Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya (O. Yukina) meets her counterpart Yalo (T. Yukina), while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example whre Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc.

Two girls found themself on an adventure to save Gurd (backward reading for Drug, a friend), a boy was put in jail by some evil forces in the kingdom, the trio Anidag (Gadina, meaning monster), Nushrok (Korshun, meaning vulture) and Abazh (Zhaba, meaning toad).

They meet Aunt Askal ("Laska" literally translates as the act of caring), King's Chef, who helped them on their journey by hiding them and dressing them up as two pages of the King Yagupop 77 (Popugay, meaning parrot).

Finally, Gurd is saved, evil is defeated, Olya returnes to her grandmother and Kingdom's mirrors are not crooked any more, implying that it is now a free society.