Adaptation of Pushkin's fairy tales. The tale is about a fisherman who manages to catch a Golden Fish which promises to fulfill any wish of his in exchange for its freedom. The storyline is similar to the Russian fairy tale "The Greedy Old Wife" and the Brothers Grimm's tale "The Fisherman and His Wife".
Practical Effects
Hand-built puppets and liquid effects in pre-digital 1937.
Direction
Ptushko's obsessive detail in every sea-foam bubble.
Production
Soviet studio magic on a shoestring budget.
Director
Aleksandr Ptushko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ptushko hand-painted glass slides for underwater backgrounds and used cotton for smoke effects—Soviet resourcefulness at its finest.
Pushkin's 1833 poem was already subverting European fairy tales; this 1937 film arrived as Stalin's USSR was cracking down on 'bourgeois' individualism, making the wife's greed politically loaded.
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