Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

(1963)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 53 votes

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Year: 1963

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Александр Роу

Cast: Ольга Юкина, Татьяна Юкина, Анатолий Кубацкий, Андрей Файт, Тамара Носова, Татьяна Барышева, Лидия Вертинская, Зоя Василькова, Георгий Милляр, Андрей Стапран

Plot

Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya: where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.