Snow Maiden [DVD] [1968] [NTSC] Snegurochka . Language: English, Russian Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, French,

Great Russian fairytale. Adds to the Holiday festivities.

Good Fairy tale with folk music but not Rimsky-Korsakov opera.

Another gorgeous Russian film - full of beautiful folk music and a breathtaking village set. The story is so famous in Russia that both Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky set it to music. The poor Snow Maiden is a very tragic figure who willingly dies to feel the emotion of love but the coda is quite upbeat. Very Russian.

As a playwright Ostrovsky is the Russian Shakespeare. Here we have something akin to "A Midsummernight's Dream," only with superb Russian folk singing thrown into the mix. Yes, it all can seem very stilted to western audiences, but remember that this is pretty important theater being filmed. Wonderful atmospherics and direction reminiscent of Bergman and Pasolini make this a lot of fun. I just wish the soundtrack were available.

Snow Maiden is a tale of the daughter of father winter who falls in love with a mortal and discovers the pain of love.

Great film!

Another gorgeous Russian film - full of beautiful folk music and a breathtaking village set. The story is so famous in Russia that both Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky set it to music. The poor Snow Maiden is a very tragic figure who willingly dies to feel the emotion of love but the coda is quite upbeat. Very Russian.

It was a beautiful fairy tale. It's about Snegroichka "AKA" Snow Maiden, she goes into the world of humans and her heart is melted by a handsome shepard who can sing opera! And I mean the guy can sing too! But then when a friend of her's is betrothed to another man, her friends fiance falls for Snow Maiden. So can Snow Maiden win the heart of Lel the shepard and get her friend's lustful, annoying fiance off her back? Heck I'm not telling you, you have to watch this movie and see for yourself! Highly reconmended for music, Russian movie lovers and lovers of Russian fairy tales!

enjoying it very much

If you're interested in dramatic depth, emotional complexity and sheer cinematic beauty, this adaptation of Ostrovsky's play - for which Tchaikovsky wrote the original stage music, and which Rimsky Korsakov later turned into a opera - has all of them in abundance. Like Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale', the play works at many levels and the film skilfully suggests them all. No wonder it's hailed as a Russian classic, a winter tale for the ages. The Ruscico presentation is not without some visual problems, but this is probably as good as it's going to get and the English subtitles and bonuses are excellent. Don't hesitate.

Good romantic tale