Overview

This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in handling rare precious stones found in the Ural Mountains. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a fairy who ordered for herself an unusual stone flower.

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Cast

Vladimir Druzhnikov

Danilo

Yekaterina Derevshchikova

Katya

Tamara Makarova

Khozyayka Medhoy Gori

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Prokopych

Mikhail Yanshin

Severyan

Aleksandr Kleberer

Grandfather Slyshko

Serafim Zaytsev

Yefimka

Lidiya Deikun

Vikoriha

Stepan Kayukov

Merchant (uncredited)

Arkadi Tsinman

Merchant (uncredited)