A Very Old Story Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. Details Casts Galleries Posters Title A Very Old Story Release Date 1968-06-04 Runtime 01 Hours 30 Minutes Genres Family Fantasy Production Companies Lenfilm Production Countries Soviet Union Oleg Dal... Soldier / Puppet master... Marina Neyolova... Princess / innkeeper's da... Vladimir Etush... King / Innkeeper... Georgiy Vitsin... good wizard... Vera Titova... witch / davil's grandmoth... Viktor Perevalov... Prince-chimney sweep... Georgiy Shtil... Eastern Prince... Anatoly Korolkevich... doorman... Georgi Georgiu... "thick"... Lev Lemke... "thin"... Igor Dmitriev... ... Boris Leskin... ... Anatoli Abramov... contender for groom... Original Size (1280x720) Original Size (1359x763) Original Size (500x750) Original Size (960x1440)