The Magical Portrait

Story

Synopsis

Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...

Director

Gennadi Vasilyev

Writers

Gennadi Vasilyev, Shi U. Zhang

Language

Russian

Country

China, Russia

Release date

31 July 1997

Ensemble

Cast

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  Sergey Shnyryov

  Ivan

• 

  Li Gao

  Xiao Qing

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  Ariadna Shengelaia

  Sorceress

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  Valentina Telichkina

  Ivan's mother

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  Vladimir Antonik

  Knyaz

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  Irina Bezrukova

  Malachite Fairy

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  Andrey Martynov

  Titus

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  Tamara Sidorenko

  Titus's wife

• Anna Markova

  Motya

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  Natalya Goncharova

  Innkeeper