The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Gvidon (Oleg Vidov) grows from an infant to a grown man during a single voyage, sealed in a cask beside his mother (Larisa Golubkina), who was thrown into the sea after her sisters' lies turned the court against her. Aleksandr Ptushko stages the island and the tsar's kingdom in saturated color and fairy-tale invention. On that shore Gvidon falls for a Swan Princess (Kseniya Ryabinkina), and she is what he has to weigh against the father he has never met.