The Tale About the Painter in Love

The Tale about the Painter in Love (Russian: Сказка про влюблённого маляра) is a 1987 Soviet children's fantasy drama film directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova.^[1][2][3][4]

The Tale about the Painter in Love
Russian: Сказка про влюблённого маляра
Directed by	Nadezhda Kosheverova
Written by	Valeri Frid Mikhail Volpin
Starring	Nikolay Stotskiy Nina Urgant Olga Volkova Valeriy Ivchenko Yekaterina Golubeva
Cinematography	Eduard Rozovsky
Music by	Moisey Vaynberg
Release date	1987 (1987)
Running time	80 minute
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

The film tells about the young and cheerful painter Makar, who was invited to the king's palace. There he met a beautiful princess, whom he immediately fell in love with, but he was expelled from the palace. Makar has to go through many trials before realizing that the one he saw in the palace is not a beautiful princess at all, but an ugly maid.^[5]

Cast

• Nikolay Stotskiy
• Nina Urgant
• Olga Volkova
• Valeriy Ivchenko
• Yekaterina Golubeva
• Dmitriy Iosifov
• Aleksandr Grave
• Sergey Filippov
• Georgiy Shtil
• Mariya Barabanova^[6]