The film "The Tale of Lost Time": the actors gave the children real magic

The film "The Tale of Lost Time" (its actors are familiar to viewers of different ages) for several decades has been one of the most beloved not only by children, but also by their parents. Since 1964, they have been watching a magical story about how lazy children, by the will of evil wizards, turned into old people.

Story line

Four evil wizards live in a magical forest all their lives. They are only engaged in what they do different nasty things to people. But once they understand that for their tricks they are already very old, so they decide to steal youth from those who absolutely do not value their time. Wizards find four guys who are not busy with anything useful, and turn them into old men. They themselves become young. But, having overdone with the "elixir of youth", they become children.

The film "The Tale of Lost Time", whose actors are well known to millions of Soviet children, is truly a fairy tale for everyone - not only for the younger generation, but also for parents.

Petya, one of the boys whose time was stolen, realizes that he has become an old man forever. Therefore, he decides to leave all the people in the forest, where he accidentally finds a hut of evil wizards. In the hut, he sees a cuckoo in his watch and drinks it with water, which wizards have never done. In gratitude for this, the bird tells the boy what he needs to do to remove the spell. He decides to fight. But he understands that if he pronounces magic words alone, then only he will regain his youth. And the other three guys, who are also old, will remain at their new age. Therefore, Petya decides to find and save them.

About the tale ...

This children's film was shot in the mid-sixties based on the tale of Eugene Schwartz. Initially, the film adaptation idea belonged to director Tamara Lisitsian, but during the preparatory work, the picture was given to Alexander Ptushko.

“The Tale of Lost Time” is a film about miracles that can happen to everyone. This is the only picture Ptushko, which was shot on modern material. The rest are real fairy tales such as "Sadko" or "Golden Key".

The film was shot in the warm season, despite the fact that the action of the tale should take place in the winter. In Schwarz’s tale, the guys must scroll 77 hours back to get their old child’s look, and in the film, only three circles are enough.

Old schoolchildren

Together with Petya Zubov, evil wizards took youth from Vasya Zaitsev, Marusya Pospelova and Nadia Sokolova.

Little Petya was played by Grisha Plotkin, and Petya after witchcraft - an adult - a wonderful actor Oleg Anofriev. “The Tale of Lost Time” was a real gift for each of the students, because they sincerely believed in everything that was happening to them.

Little Vasya was played by Misha Kulaev, and the adult was played by the wonderful comedian Savely Kramarov.

Marusya the schoolgirl was embodied by Vera Volkova, and after the spell - Lyudmila Shagalova, known for one of the stories in the Gaida comedy "It Can't Be!".

Little Nadya was played by Lida Konstantinova, and the adult - the best tortoise Tortilla of the Soviet Union Rina Zeleny.

Evil wizards

In the film “The Tale of Lost Time”, the actors of which gave the audience an unforgettable gift, there was a hint that you should not waste time in vain, so as not to lose it.

Who played the evil wizards who took youth from ordinary Soviet schoolchildren?

From the beginning of history, Prokofy Prokofievich was embodied by Sergey Martinson, an outstanding eccentric, a master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. In the guise of a schoolboy is Zhenya Sokolov, whom the director chose, considering that the boy is ideally suited for the role of an evil sorcerer.

Andrei Andreyevich was played by Grigory Vitsin, beloved by millions, and the student was Seryozha Karponosov.

Anna Ivanovna in the guise of a sorceress was embodied by Irina Murzaeva - that same cheerful granny from “Married Bachelor”, known not only for her roles in the movie, but also for her characters from “Yeralash”, and in the guise of a schoolgirl - Zina Kukushkina.

Avdotya Petrovna, the fourth of the evil sorcerers, was played by Valentina Telegina, known for her roles in the films “Kuban Cossacks”, “Sailor Chizhik”, “It Was in Penkov” (the same Alevtina Vlasyevna) and others, and “rejuvenated” - Tanya Dontsenko .

This is how the "Tale of Lost Time" turned out. Actors tried to play so that the story remained in the memory of the audience for a long time. And they succeeded.