Cinderella
About Cinderella
In a kingdom preparing a ball, the stepmother bullies her husband the forester and her stepdaughter, and favors her own daughters Anna and Marianne. The fairy and her page turn a pumpkin into a coach, mice into horses, and a rat into a coachman, then warn Cinderella to leave by midnight. She wins the prince and amuses the king, flees, and loses a slipper. The prince tries the shoe on the women of the house, the second slipper fits, and the king says the couple will have a daughter like her.
Cast & crew
More about Cinderella
Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro directed Yevgeny Schwartz's script for Lenfilm. Yevgeni Shapiro photographed it and Antonio Spadavecchia wrote the score. Lenfilm released it on 16 May 1947.
Themes
Look
Yevgeni Shapiro photographed the palace and forest sets.
Music
Antonio Spadavecchia wrote the score for the musical scenes.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons under the 1947 Russian title.
Notes
- Yanina Zheymo plays Cinderella. Faina Ranevskaya is the stepmother. Erast Garin is the king. Aleksey Konsovsky is the prince. Varvara Myasnikova is the fairy.
- Vasili Merkuryev plays the forester. Yelena Yunger is Anna. Tamara Sezenevskaya is Marianne.
- The Russian title is Zolushka.
- Wikidata also lists release dates of 24 October 1947 and 14 November 1947.
Scenes
- The fairy turns the pumpkin, the mice, and the rat into a coach and four.
- Cinderella runs at midnight and leaves one slipper.
- The second shoe fits when the prince reaches her.
Influenced by
- Charles Perrault's Cinderella
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1947. Золушка.webm)
