Your shadow wants your job, your girl, and your life. Therapy won't fix this.
The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to the kind girl Annunziata. The scientist becomes a victim of palace intrigues and intrigues. His own shadow, which appeared to the hero, pushes him to a cowardly act - the rejection of the princess. The shadow wins the heart of the princess and wants to destroy Christian-Theodore. But, as it is supposed to be in a real fairy tale, everything ends happily. The hero is helped by Annunziata's love and the sympathy of the town's inhabitants for the scientist who wants to make everyone happy.
Acting
Raykin plays both scientist and shadow with delicious theatricality.
Production
Fairytale sets that look borrowed from an opera house dumpster.
Director
Mikhail Kozakov
Konstantin Raykin
Учёный / Тень Учёного
Marina Dyuzheva
принцесса Луиза
Mikhail Kozakov
журналист Цезарь Борджиа
Spartak Mishulin
министр финансов
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
Пиестро
Marina Neyolova
Юлия Джули
Svetlana Stepchenko
принцесса
Aleksandr Tsekalo
певец
Aleksandr Ryzhkov
эпизод
Yuri Volyntsev
первый министр
Arkadiy Koval
эпизод
Aleksandr Lazarev
доктор
Lolita Milyavskaya
курортница
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapts Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Shadow' but swaps the original's bleak ending for Soviet-era mandatory optimism. The shadow still gets the girl, but now the scientist gets a consolation prize.
Director Kozakov cast himself as the journalist who observes everything and changes nothing—possibly the most honest casting decision in cinema history.
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